“Once you take autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and all the other ways that you can developmentally be different from the typical, you actually don’t get many typical people left. That is going to change society, but not in a bad way.”
-- Francesca Happé, The Times (UK)
"What is defining normal based on?" The clinical practice of labeling everything then prescribing a drug for it, now has the backlash of taboo removal and radical acceptance. We are all something a few men labeled "Not Normal" after years of social shaming this generation or humans are owning their quirks, their truth because they asked the question.
“Most of the science around conditions like ADHD and autism suggest they are on a continuum and where you put the boundary is a clinical judgment. But whether we have now come too far down the dimension to something we would have called a personality type — or a bit of eccentricity — and we are now giving that a medical term, whether that’s helpful or not is a discussion we need to have.”
-- Francesca Happé, The Times (UK)