The two main issues I see are:

  • In any kind of anarchist system, the need for financial capital is replaced by a need for social capital. It’s easy to tell people “jUsT go TaLk To YoUr NeIgHbOrS” and hard for many people to do. There should be room in society still for people who don’t feel like talking

  • Locally grown and unprocessed foods with unpredictable taste and texture

If you see any more problems or solutions then you can comment them below

EDIT: I tried to delete this post but I don’t really know how. I deleted it but it still shows up. Sry for the bad post

EDIT 2: I guess I will undelete if it’s going to show up on the feed either way

  • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    this is an anarchist perspective on solarpunk, so please bear that in mind:

    i don’t think solarpunk can ignore the needs of neurodivergeot people and claim to have dissolved all hierarchy. i think your question actually is a fantastic prompt for us to suss this out and figure out how to handle it. my experience has been that neurodivergent people do not avoid social connection, but instead typical modes of social connection. i think a lot of it will come down to neuronondivergent people (i dislike the term “neurotypical” as it’s often used by bigots as a label for themselves as a form of supremacy against neurodivergent people) being receptive. i’m AuDHD so my experience with this will be different from yours, but a lot of it has come down to discussing these things with my social connections and creating methods of discussing them with people who think differently from us.

    so much of it comes down to recognizing that the current hegemony is inherently abilist. if we are to undo this hegemony, we have to find ways of living and being that are fundamentally opposed to this hegemony. we must also recognize that it falls more on the maintainers of the hegemony to adapt, and less so on the people who suffer under the hegemony. solarpunk must center LGBTQIA+, minority, immigrant, indigenous, and neurodivergent people and show a world where they thrive.

    • cravl@slrpnk.net
      1·
      5 days ago

      Very well said. Concerning terminology, I did just think of neuronormative, or possibly neuromajoritive?

      Tbh, I feel like neurodiverse is the more problematic term, because diversity is a measure of a whole group, not individuals or even subgroups within it. Saying someone is more or less diverse than another is just… nonsense. They can contribute to or represent diversity, but they cannot be diverse.

      ^(You could argue that’s a nitpick and that language is defined by those who use it, but eh.)