Join the NeuroSpicy Movement!

Our petition to revisit ADA to empower students and identify Neurodiversity early in life is currently running, help us reach 1 million signatures by signing and sharing!

Justice, Diversity, Equity, Belonging

Here's what we plan to do once we've demonstrated our numbers and made our "invisible disability" more visible:

1. Hear all of the feedback that we have gotten from this campaign and respond to it, possibly adding things to this campaign, or changing the order of things...

2. Advocate for new testing that identifies people based on their neurology, not there gender and "race." NeoroSpicy people are women, men, queer, Black, Indigenous, and more! But right now tests are designed to target white males.

3. One thing our whole world needs is more trained Psychologists. The Pandemic has been traumatic on almost everyone, so let's provide incentives for more people to become psychologists (and teachers... we need more, better paid teachers!)!!! This new influx of clinical psychologists will help administer more tests and treat more patients!

4. Bridge the NeuroSpicy gap between ADA and IDEA so that people with different neurology's aren't seen  ignored if they aren't falling behind. IDEA includes a Child Find mandate, and so should ADA!

5. NeuroSpicy people are more likely to be among the long term unemployed, and face several other hurdles... let's revisit our workplaces and try to make them better for people with what is currently know as "disabilities," but we hope will someday be acknowledged as unique lived experiences!

This campaign is part of our efforts to raise awareness of our numbers, for the people in the community to "come out of the closet" and announce your neurological superiority — I mean differences — in the hopes of removing the stigma, and raising awareness.

Invisible disabilities can include: autism spectrum disorder, depression, diabetes, learning and thinking differences such as ADHD and dyslexia, symptoms such as chronic pain, fatigue, dizziness and sensory processing sensitivity, autoimmune disorders like Lyme disease and HIV, and chronic pain like migraines, arthritis, and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Fear of discrimination or harassment is a major reason why people with disabilities — invisible or otherwise — don’t disclose their struggle. Someone you know, may be afraid of opening themselves up to discrimination. 

Someone may see you working and think they don't have a disability but Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), a private think tank, claims that 30% of working professionals in the United States are expected to have a disability. The CTI study also reveals that 62% percent of employees with disabilities have invisible disabilities.

This is a work in progress. Please email us about any thoughts you have:  neurospicymovement@gmail.com