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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Participants wanted! 👥 Take part in an online survey on minority stress & neurodiversity (20–40 mins), inc. focus on burden from administrative systems! Open to neurotypical & neurodivergent adults (18+), English proficient, no location limits 🌍 🔗 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Every single day, labour float a new, shitty policy that primarily punishes poorer areas. That's fun 🫠 this is basically just a new and exciting way to defund universities, and slaughter ones already struggling after a decade of underfunding.

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

There were three prescriptions based on core factors: 1️⃣ Advocate for neurodivergent people’s rights to thrive 2️⃣ Push for radical social change in solidarity with other activist movements 3️⃣ Promote genuine social inclusion (esp. in education & community)

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Set 2: Prescriptions of Neurodiversity

Factor 1) Proudly support neurodivergent people’s rights to what we need to be active and productive members of society.

Factor 2) Neurodiversity as a radical movement for broad based societal change in alliance with other progressive political activists.

Factor 3) Neurodiversity as a movement for genuine social inclusion.

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

For what is neurodiversity: We found 3 factors of understandings of what the neurodiversity movement is which people loaded onto: 💥 Social justice movement 🌈 Rights-based co-existence 🧪 Scientific recognition of different minds

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Set 1: Understandings of Neurodiversity

Factor 1) Neurodiversity as a social justice movement.

Factor 2) Recognition of the rights of neurodivergent individuals as beneficial to society

Factor 3) Neurodiversity based on scientific knowledge about different types of, equally valid, mind.

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We organised the statements two categories of "what is neurodiversity" and "what should the neurodiversity movement do" and then analysed how participant-researchers organised the statements within these categories. This gave statistical results which we analysed as a group

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Findings. The ‘propositions’ fell into two neat categories:

‘What is neurodiversity?’
(We called this set ‘Understandings’)

‘What should the neurodiversity movement do?’
(We called this set ‘Prescriptions’)

Within both sets, we discovered a range of perspectives (‘factors’), with some overlap...

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We created, the clarified and filtered more than 200 statements down to about 100, and then split those statements and ranked them. We were both the researchers and participants.

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How. This study used Q Methodology : a research approach that uncovers the range of viewpoints people hold.

Participant-researchers ranked over 200 statements (‘propositions’) about neurodiversity, then use statistical analysis to group similar patterns together.

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We formed a collective of neurodivergent researchers (autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic, and more) to study our own perspectives with care, with transparency, and with methodological rigour and a focus on deep subjectivity. This wasn’t easy. Or comfortable. And it was slow!

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Who. 10 neurodivergent researchers from a range of research backgrounds
What. We wanted to explore and categorize the diverse perspectives within the neurodivergent community regarding the purpose and direction of the neurodiversity movement.
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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This was an exciting and long collaboration that was by no means quick! We worked together over a period of time talking, sharing experiences, and then formalised the conversations into a shared methods to figure out what the (dis)similarities were in how we conceptualised

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'll post about #INSAR2025 in coming days but I just wanted to start by saying my biggest highlight this was was getting to see my students ✨SHINE✨. I am so proud of their deeply meaningful work and who they are as people.

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