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Category Archives: Issue 23: Counterpoints on Diagnosis Culture

  1. Reframing My Struggles with ADHD

    August 29th, 2022 by Christina Waggaman | Issue 23: Counterpoints on Diagnosis Culture, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Christina Waggaman was diagnosed with ADHD in high school. But there was more to her psychologist’s evaluation that didn’t interest her–until she started to run into the limits of that diagnostic frame.

  2. Dear Autism: When a Label Is Wrong

    August 29th, 2022 by Margo Margan | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 23: Counterpoints on Diagnosis Culture, The Life of the Mind |

    Margo Margan was diagnosed with autism when she was seven years old, in an effort to make her eligible for some extra services.

    But, as it took her years of struggle to realize, she never needed those services in the first place.

  3. Can You Change? The Purpose of the Third Factor

    August 29th, 2022 by Jessie Mannisto | Issue 23: Counterpoints on Diagnosis Culture, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Neurodivergence is all the rage, especially in creative circles. But, contrary to some people’s expectations, that construct is well beyond the point of this site, if it’s even useful at all.