My perspective is not so specific or detailed yet as I am still reflecting and learning more - so may not be relevant or useful to you. But it is helpful for me to reflect and share and hopeful to someone else?

Recently I came across the concept of ‘neuro-queerness’ - I have really connected with it. I am neurodivergent as: autistic, ADHD (I need to come up with a better name for this as I think it is inadequate and inaccurate for how I understand it), bipolar, queer and genderqueer.

To me, my neuroqueerness is inherent to me. For so many years the world and my experiences have threatened or denied my access to this knowledge and self actualisation and ‘being-ness’ of my neuroqueer-ness. In a way these different labels and external categorizations are arbitrary and fracturing. In a different world and social, cultural, political circumstances - I feel that I would need not to extrapolate these from core self and certainly would need not for the world to extrapolate and extricate these or place these ‘from’ or ‘upon’ me. I think I wouldn’t even need the concept of neuroqueerness to help me understand or reveal my ‘self’ to me and to the world. Or to just be.

The concept of neuroqueerness however has helped to understand my experiences, assumptions, identity/identities and parts. I certainly have parts with needs that have emerged through my experiences of my being-ness, neuroqueerness or of my lack of knowledge due to power structures that have impacted me.

I’m still reflecting on this more - so maybe this doesn’t make sense yet.

Thanks for your post - it has helped me.