The COURAGE & KNOWLEDGE to ADDRESS BIG SHORTAGES

Understanding Psychiatric Disorders as Disorders of the Neuro-Developmental Continuum does seem like a BIG STEP UP.

Understanding that much of what we're trying to address are challenges in Executive Functioning, including Emotional Regulation --- but not limited to Emotional Regulation seems like a BIG STEP UP.  

Understanding that NEURO-DIVERSE INDIVIDUALS are bringing STRENGTHS to the table not just EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES seems like a BIG STEP UP.  

Understanding that NEURO-DIVERSE People tend to be CLUSTERED at the TOPS and BOTTOMS of SOCIETIES makes this COMPLICATED.  

THAT KNEE ON YOUR NECK PROBABLY BELONGS TO SOME OTHER NEURO-DIVERSE PERSON. ​

​One of the things that I've found in this JOURNEY is that ONE FUZZY IDEA is connected to ANOTHER FUZZY IDEA in our SOCIETY.  So:

• Criminal Intent
• Anti-Social Personality Disorder
• Unconscious Bias
• Societal Hierarchies
• NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL "DISORDERS" and their relationship to PSYCHIATRIC "DISORDERS"
• Trauma
• Intergenerational Trauma
• The Biological Basis of Behavior and its CONNECTION to Environment
• Pro Social Competency Religion that it appears the Mental Health Profession has used to fill in quite a few gaps as PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS were not the ANSWER to EVERYTHING.
• STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES can be MORE ASYNCHRONOUS than we've recognized,
  • ​So someone like myself --- I need support in areas of organization that some people might be surprised about --- people who know me wouldn't be surprised at all.
  • On the other hand --- my abstract thinking skills are high and I do know a lot just as result of that NEURO-DIVERSITY --- of course --- it's NOT perfect.

Jacob Bronowski's  Ascent of Ma​n (1973)

​Knowledge or Certainty

ORCHID'S 2022
CO COGNITIVE
​DISABILITY 2-PAGER

​BOTTOM LINE:  Colorado and other States need to get on with it and adopt REASONABLE PLANS with MEASURABLE GOALS to address BIG SHORTAGES.

​‘I am my brother’s keeper’, Philonise Floyd tells UN rights body, in impassioned plea for racial justice

As much as I love Science, it is holding this society HOSTAGE in LAW and PUBLIC POLICY --- as it has set itself up as the ONLY WAY of KNOWING.

• ​Ironically, SCIENCE has been able to do this because of RELIGON's CLAIM to INFALLIBILIBITY --- it's not hard to prove that wrong, BUT
• EMPIRICAL SCIENCE has a hard time keeping up with the MORAL CUNUNDRUMS complex societies are facing.   

If we want to call it MORAL REASONING that's fine --- it is greatly informed by various religious and philosophical traditions --- and if we were using it ----

• ​We probably wouldn't be the MOST INCARCERATED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.