Just had a lovely meeting with a student, and agree to be a reader for her BA thesis on representations of mental illness in Margery Kempe (and possibly other texts). Please give me recs for scholarship on neurodiversity in the Middle Ages!! #MedievalTwitter
*neurodivergence as well as societal pressures upon them, and that they generally fall under disability studies, to say they are separate is I think an oversimplification.
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i agree that saying they're separate is an oversimplification. i also respect that in this field bc it's usually not explicit mental illness or neurodivergency that separating them wouldn't be much help. mostly my response is trying to underline that they're not the same !
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directed at undoing the conflation that is so common these days, rather than drawing a hard line between ND and mental illness. i don't even know where that line is in my own brain, like. but i do think ppl calling all mental illness neurodiversity is bad for neurodiversity.
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