Strange Horizons presents a conversation between Mary Robinette Kowal and Kristy Anne Cox “In hindsight, they are things that I have dealt with my entire life and have affected my ability to move through the world, because the world is not built for people whose brains are wired the way my brain is wired. But because, for decades, I didn’t know that my brain was wired differently, I have come up with so many work-arounds that I just didn’t realize it was a disability. And with ADHD in particular, I tend to push back against that very much. I’m like, you know, this is the way my brain is wired, and it’s very useful in a lot of different ways.
The parts of it that are a disability are parts where the world and the definition of normal have been rigidly defined based on a brain model that is not my brain model. But my brain model is not broken.”
This is part 2 of WWD – first installment is an interview with Nisi Shawl.