Posts

Showing posts from December, 2019

Pursuit of Normality = sacrifice of potential

Image
Isaac Newton discovered gravity started by first questioning why the apple keeps dropping/falling when he lets go of it. Why can't it go left or right? People ignored it. I can imagine some may have ridiculed it. Today gravity is a law of physics , and it is studied in school syllabus worldwide in subject of physics. He was accused of being insane when he said men could go to the moon if we overcome the gravity of earth. How many astronauts have gone to the moon to date? While we don't wish to spend time speculating whether Isaac Newton is autistic or not, one thing for sure - he thought of things many people did not think of, he observed things others pass off as insignificant (apple dropping). This goes to show we need people with different kind of brains wired differently, who see things differently, who think out of the box etc. One of the categories of people who can do this are the Neurodivergent population. It is a pity that these people get labelled all k