Thought For The Day – Wednesday 19th March 2025
Celebrating Neurodiversity
We are all equal.
But we are all diverse. We are all uniquely and beautifully different. Everyone brings their brilliant, and extraordinary, perspective, based on nature and nurture.
We are all included. We celebrate, cherish, treasure and value who others are. We celebrate, cherish, treasure and value who we are.
This life, and beyond, is a jigsaw, with everyone bringing their piece, and needing complimentary pieces, to create the whole.
In all this, no one is “better” than anyone else. There is no hierarchy of, and to, goodness. The key is to be good and to be kind.
If we do think we are better than, and exclude and marginalize, anyone else, whoever we we are, we may just find that, one day, or even today, someone else will one day think themselves better than, and exclude and marginalize, us.
In all this, everyone has a story. Everyone has environmental, experiential, health, psychological and physical challenges. But some people have even greater life challenges which bring out even greater outstanding superpowers they have.
Negative prejudice, negative discrimination and negative stereotyping, whether it be demonstrated in actions, language or thoughts, based on race, sex, gender, sexuality, disability, ability, identity, religion, culture, age and class are all equally illegal, immoral and wrong.
This week Neurodiversity Awareness Week. The theme for 2025 is: “’Fostering Inclusion: Embracing Diverse Minds.”
Neurodiversity refers to the diverse, and unique, nature of each person’s brain.
A symbol of neurodiversity, pictured above, is the rainbow infinity symbol, with a heart.
This symbolises love and respect for how we, and people generally, experience and interact with the world in different and diverse ways.
We celebrate neurodiversity, both our own neurodiversity and that of others.
We include neurodiverse citizens in society, and in teams: not only because it is right; not only because we are all neurodiverse in our way; not only because we must treat others like we wish to be treated; but because, in our journey, we need superheroes with superpowers to wonderfully guide and help, and massively inspire and lead.
Siena Castellon, who started Neurodiversity Celebration week in 2018, said: “People often focus on the challenges of neurological diversity. I wanted to change the narrative and create a balanced view which focuses equally on our talents and strengths.”
In striving to be good, “The Black and Gold Spirit” of TBSHS has always been an inclusive spectrum of positivity, kindness and respect.
