Mycelial thread - I recently watched a reel about neurodiversity, where a woman who is an educational psychologist spoke of the need to stop making people fit into an environment that doesn’t suit them, and instead of trying to change the person, we should more often, change their environment.
As someone who is neurodivergent, this made me cry a little. The years of trying to fit into a system that didn’t suit me, trying to form myself to be something different all the while being told I’m stupid or that there was something wrong with me was quite damaging.
I imagined after listening to this short reel, what it would have been like for someone to scoop me up and put me in a different environment, one that suited me more, such as a forest, or a place where learning and socialising was held differently.
But this thought also made me think of some mental health goals that can be present in a persons recovery. As someone who has often worked with people struggling and on their recovery journey, I have had to work alongside many mental health teams. Often one of the common goals for a person in recovery, was to get them to fit in with society more, and this was held as a marker of good health. Which brings me to this amazing quote
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti