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@sicbjournals.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 12:05 PM

#NationalDisabilityEmploymentAwareness month- an ICB blog by Jordan James Bond

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#Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological #Sciences Spaces

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"There have been so many social charges in recent years—efforts to recognize and hold space for individuals and identities that have historically been ignored, overlooked, or discarded. Yet a common thread weaves through these seemingly disparate conversations: the recognition that we are all different. For generations, society has upheld and perpetuated the fallacy that there is a “normal,” or ideal, way for people to exist, engage, communicate, learn, work, and believe. This misconception has contributed to the isolation and ostracization of countless people, often simply because they did not fit within an invisible standard of what a person was expected to be. But what were these individuals different from when there is no standard human being? There never was. The foundation of the western world, somewhere along the way, created an imagined default person: able-bodied, neurotypical, cisgender, heterosexual, economically secure, and often implicitly modeled around the experiences of white men. This person is rarely described as having an identity. Instead, they are simply treated as “normal.” Everyone else becomes an adjective. #Disabled. #Neurodivergent. Queer. Poor. Immigrant. Female. Black. Brown. Different. But the “normal” person does not exist..."