A buzzword at the moment over there is 'neurodivergence', which seems to be a fancy way of saying 'non-standard' or 'over-sensitive' (rather like 'bipolar' is the new way of saying 'manic-depressive').
I went to an English boarding school, where, because I was not a testosterone-fuelled rugger-bugger I was bullied horribly . . . I suppose that, now qualifies me as 'neurodivergent'.
I did NOT like my time at that boarding school (although I did emerge, bloody-but-unbowed' at the end with all sorts of fancy exam results and a determination to carry on the way I was rather than bow to the shitheads of the type who made up the vast majority of creatures in my school), but I did become slightly more thick-skinned, so when people say things about me I do not like I do NOT take them to heart.
AND the current tend to pander to everyone's 'neurodivergency' (probably about 25-50% of a given population) strikes me as a waste of time and energy (sensitive types like myself are going to take offence at something, real or imagined, anyway); far better that those 'neurodivergent' people have a chance to toughen up (that does NOT mean I condone bullying).
Both my sons, each in slightly different ways, are 'over-sensitive', 'non-standard', or whatever fancy jargonistic terms you want to use (which makes not one jot of difference to them); both were bullied at school in 2 totally different educational systems to the one I went through . . . they are now 'up-and-running' in the big, wide world.
I am extremely happy that my sons are NOT the usual insensitive shitheads that pass for 'non-neurodivergent' (I wonder what the term for that is?).
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Neuroconvergent.
So: to any 'neurodivergent' types round here: Please don't "Take a Fence".
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Or, as my Granddad said to me when he saw me scratching a spot: "Don't Picket."
