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neurodivergence and friendship and what it's like to come at friendship when your process is different to someone else's.

Jemima was coming specifically from a perspective of a diagnosis of dyspraxia when she was six and an ADHD process that she recognizes and she talked to us about how hard it can be when you have, I guess,

a responsibility to close the gap between yourself, herself and the people in her life.

So let's see how from a psychoeducational perspective we might be able to understand

Jemima's situation but for anybody who experiences friendships where one person is, well, we call it neurotypical, does that mean very much? I don't know,

and maybe where someone else is bringing something that's more neurodiverse.

Jemima talked about the fact that she hated having a diagnosis of dyspraxia.

She said, I rejected it.

The result of this diagnosis was that the world worked to try to help her be more like the other kids.

She would spend time in her back garden while her brother helped her practice catching.

She would have extra lessons in gym.

She would have the remedial lessons that meant that she was being tutored above and beyond other children,

given the time and attention and I guess hopefully the intention was the skills and the ability to access a world

that was structured for kids who were more neuro-typical. She had to do more, she had to make more effort,

she had to close the gap, the gap that I think of in terms of neurodiversity as between me, who I am, and this, societies, conventions and expectations and quote unquote norms.

It's often left to the responsibility of the person who brings an element of

neurodivergence to do that closing the gap work.

And yet they're often also asked to accept less

as a result.

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