Lakitha Tolbert
1 min readFeb 22, 2024

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I agree! Im not jumping on some type of bandwagon! I am black and a woman, high on the spectrum scale, who was never (and would never ) have been diagnosed as neurodivergent according the criteria that's always been in use. What we're seeing in adults who are identifying as neurodivergent is how lacking in study and acknowledgment neurodivergence is outside of the model you just mentioned.

People like me were never even thought of as being neurodivergent. It wasn't even a term that existed in common parlance when I was a child, which is when most get identified. We always existed, in every race and gender, but no one cared or studied it. We had no choice but to discover this in the past few years. We spent decades trying to understand ourselves, thinking something was horribly "wrong" with us, only to find that we met much of the basic "criteria" for neurodivergence, which is something that had only ever been ascribed to white middle class boys.

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Lakitha Tolbert
Lakitha Tolbert

Written by Lakitha Tolbert

(She/Her) Busybody librarian from Ohio.

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