Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

Re:Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodive... by nsagent on Monday March 24, 2025 @03:42PM (#43464695)

It seems odd that as a society it's been deemed a-okay to pathologize a cluster of traits shared by 30% of the population.

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Re:Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodive... by 0_____0 on Monday March 24, 2025 @04:15PM (#43464974)

neurotypes exist in an n-dimensional space with loose clusterings, making binary attributes at best vague and clumsy.

i hope we move away from pathologizing and toward making social and economic structures adaptive for people that are currently challenged by them, and likewise find better ways for people to adapt their lives to fit how their minds work

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Re:Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodive... by dijit on Monday March 24, 2025 @03:46PM (#43464724)

We as a society seem to enjoy doing that.

Half of the population are provably on a different circadian rhythm than the other half, but we force everyone to function only one way.

There’s a dozen more examples, related to psychiatry and medicine.

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Re:Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodive... by idiotsecant on Monday March 24, 2025 @07:56PM (#43466681)

So if 30% of people develop high blood pressure should be pretend that doesn't exist anymore as well?

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Re:Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodive... by viraptor on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:25AM (#43468342)

20% of people are infected with herpes. So yeah, definitely worth dealing with the common problems.

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Re:Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodive... by nxobject on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:04PM (#43466724)

Not necessarily pathologize – just structure society in a way that doesn't quite work for them (me included.)

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