Summary: Andy comments on online clips of young adults describing themselves with identities such as fox or owl, non-binary, neuroqueer and neurodivergent. He wonders whether young people are staying childlike, drawing a comparison with Peter Pan, and discusses pronouns, responsibility and the idea of belonging to an oppressed or oppressor class. He says he cannot keep up with the growing number of labels.
Tag: neurodivergent, neuroqueer, queer
Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.