Shark Infested Waters
Pressure
In plain words
The water around everything else. It is the idea that there is one right way to have a mind. It is in schools, jobs and doctors' rooms.
The water the whole map sits in: neuronormativity, behaviourism, and the double empathy problem. Neuronormativity is the assumption that there is a correct way to exist in this world. Behaviorism reduces human beings to simple inputs and outputs. The double empathy problem names the mutual incomprehension between people of different dispositional outlooks — mutual, and not the Autistic person’s fault.
Damian Milton — in their own words
What changes this
Nothing a person does to themselves. These are the conditions the rest of the map sits in, and they are made and maintained by institutions. This is the area that has a politics rather than a coping strategy.
Where it is on the map
Area 13 of twenty, printed on the map as Shark Infested Waters of Neuronormativity and Behaviourism & Double Empathy Problems. It borders: