People with learning differences like dyslexia or ADHD hear multiple times a day versions of the question, “What’s your problem?” Instead, says Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney, we should be asking “What’s the school’s problem?” or “What’s the work environment’s problem?” in a world where normal is good and right and difference is deficient.
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Multiple times a day neurodivergent people hear some version of, what’s your problem? What I would like to hear is, what’s the school’s problem? What’s the problem in the working environment? What’s the problem in our larger culture where normal is good and right and different is deficient? And when we ask that question, we reframe the problem from being a problem in the person to a problem in the environment around the person. And when we reframe the problem, we then seek different solutions by building a system that’s designed the reality of human difference as opposed to the myth of human sameness.
For more information about learning disabilities, please visit LDOnLine.org. This video was made possible by a partnership between the National Education Association and WETA.