I recently learned that March is Disability Awareness and Developmental Disability Awareness Month, so I thought this would be a good time to discuss labels. Increasingly, I have heard people say “why do we need to label things?” in reference to developmental disorders such as ADHD and Autism, and while I agree that over-labeling (eg: […]
Neurodivergent Love Languages: Alone Together
I apologize if you were waiting for this final installment of my discussion about neurodivergent love languages. I was hoping I would be able to run through all of them on consecutive days. I did not count on being too sick to function, but anyway, here it finally is. The fifth and final love language […]
Neurodivergent Love Languages: Words of Interest
We are almost through all five of our neurodivergent love languages, and as you may have noticed, a lot of them don’t differ all that much between the neurodivergent and neurotypical styles. But today, we will be discussing one that actually is quite different from its neurotypical counterpart; words of affirmation. For most people, words […]