@Dan_Fogelman@TheMandyMoore I’m rewatching for the first time since the series ended. I started Season 2 about an hour ago. Immediately I remembered how brilliant and impactful @TheMandyMoore’s performance and portrayal was. #ThisIsUs
@mentalliberty @Theholisticpsyc (3/3) “We all have a little ADHD in us”, and “everyone is OCD about something” are similar examples of problematic statements. Language like this undermines the journey of neurodivergence and people’s ability to recognize and understand it.
@mentalliberty @Theholisticpsyc (1/3) That’s such a damaging and problematic statement. Reducing neurodivergence to weird is a problem. The bigger problem, for me, is equating someone who is neurodivergent to another individual’s “quirks” or whatever you’re implying makes people “weird” in their own way.
@mentalliberty @Theholisticpsyc (2/3) It minimizes the person, their mind, the challenges they endure, the physical and mental energy required to do things *most* can do without a second thought, and it devalues their contributions, achievements, and accomplishments.
@KassandraKuehl@Theholisticpsyc I don’t get it. You’re a mid-life ADHD claimer but you intentionally don’t say you’re diagnosed with ADHD because your “ADHD” actually stem from trauma? Or were those separate statements?
@Theholisticpsyc Minimizing ADHD to children who “can’t sit still for 6 hours a day” is a blatantly incorrect characterization of ADHD. It’s a disorder that is misunderstood by 95% of the population, including medical professionals. That reality is failing everyone. Do better.
@MaraLawler 2/2 That being said, I think the series captures one of @EmilyMandel’s integral ideas in her writing: the idea of parallel lives. What if that happened, instead of this. Speaking specifically re: Kirsten and Jeevan’s encounters in the series vs. the book.
@MaraLawler 1/2 It’s THE BEST. A lot of people who read the book first “complained” that the series was nothing like the book and dismissed it. I read the book after watching the series and I agree, they’re very different.