I learned something new! Neurodiversity is what it means to be ‘different in my own special way.’ That means, I am Neurodiverse!

So…if you claim to be a caring person, you have to listen to everything I say and accommodate my special needs (and even though, by definition, you’re neurodiverse too; this is about me so stop being selfish).

As a neurodiverse person, I need to know that the world does not revolve around me. Sheltering me from the truth that other people don’t exist to serve me will only warp my view of reality. Most people are too busy living their own lives to think about me. I need to be told that other people thinking of themselves does not make them hateful or ignorant.

As a neurodiverse person, I intend to make my ‘valid form of human variation’ the highest priority for everyone in my vicinity. I’ll justify manipulating and oppressing anyone who tries to help me. Your responsibility (if you love me) is to teach me how to consider others as more important than myself.

As a neurodiverse person, unless you help me learn how to live in community, I will be utterly repellant to every other human being on Earth. I’ll expect everyone to make accommodations for me. I am very high maintenance and I will quickly drain nearby humans of their affection. Eventually, all of my associates will be paid professionals. Nobody will voluntarily spend time with me for free. Teaching me to blame society for being ‘full of bigots’ won’t add a single person to my list of friends.

As a neurodiverse person, I need you to stop telling me that my condition makes it impossible to sin. Stop telling me that misbehavior is something I am powerless to change. Stop suggesting that until you find the prescription or professional that can ‘normalize me’, I am absolved of personal responsibility. Everyone will face judgment, even me.

As a neurodiverse person, I may think of some other needs to foist on you and when that happens, I expect you to immediately meet with some experts to formulate a plan of action. I’ll keep running this play for as long as you’ll tolerate it.

(2 Peter 2:9)…then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.