Tag: neurodivergent exploitation

Neurodivergent Exploitation occurs when neurodivergent capacities, vulnerabilities, trust patterns, labor, pattern recognition, empathy, intensity, or adaptive skills are used for another person’s or system’s benefit without proportionate protection, reciprocity, consent, or regard for cost.

Within the Captivity Lens, capacities that appear exceptional may be repeatedly recruited until the person is carrying far beyond sustainable limits.

  • When Captivity Begins Before Differentiation

    Much recovery language assumes there was once a freer self to return to. A person became traumatized. Lost confidence. Stopped trusting herself. Became disconnected from her body. Lost access to agency. Developed survival strategies. Recovery then becomes a process of…