Neuro-Diversity & The Darkest Night

Neuro-Diverse Families are on the FRONTLINES of seeking SUSTAINABILITY in:

• Education
• Employment, and
• Family Life

 

• Especially for parents of a certain age, we learned of our own "NEURO-DIVERGENCE" by FIRST learning of that of our children.

 

• Many of us went to great lengths to be "HONEST" with our partners and they with us ---- BUT ---
  • If you don't understand the SIGNIFICANCE of what you or your partner are sharing -- you may still be in for a RUDE AWAKENING.

 

• The thing about KIDS --- most of us are NOT going to "DIVORCE" our kids no matter what ---
  • and that opens empathy and compassion for our partners and for ourselves.
    

In an interview I posted of Alain de Botton of The School of Life, de Botton maintains that IMPERFECTION STALKS US.

I would maintain that even more concerning --- IGNORANCE STALKS US.

The IGNORANCE that many of us have lived through with regard to NEURO-DIVERSITY will not be shared in the same INTENSITY by our children or those coming after us.

Our experiences and our lives are MOORED to SPECIFIC TIMES and PLACES.

The IGNORANCE of NEURO-DIVERSITY or SOMETHING ELSE ---- doesn't seem ETERNAL.

BUT the CHALLENGE of IGNORANCE does seem ETERNAL.

There certainly is NO FINAL ACHIEVEMENT or CONCLUSION from Self-Knowledge ----the INSIGHTS to come from many of our struggles may be made by our DESCENDENTS and people who are living long after we have passed away--- but there definitely can be BETTER.

In the short span of any individual life --- there's a need to INTEGRATE FAITH & REASON to FILL IN the GAPS of IGNORANCE that EMPIRICAL SCIENCE hasn't yet answered, or the answers are partial and imperfect and we're left with many more questions than we started with.