If We Are Superheroes, Who Are The Villains?

Why it's time to ditch this construct.

I’ve touched on the rhetoric of superpowers before in ‘The Need For Neutrality’. Today I want to go deeper into this concept.

I encounter many neurodivergent folx describing their mindbody features as superpowers. There are a number of reasons this is unhelpful: It is used as a tool to encourage people to employ us, problematic because we are already wor…