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I'm just curious would Intellectual disability (Mental Retardation) be considered part of the neurodiversity movement?

Strongly disagree, here is my list of conditions on whether or not they should be considered "neurodiverse" from the NT perceptual analysis.

Good:

-Asperger syndrome/High Functioning Autism (those proud of who they are including myself, regardless of ideological belief whether it's Social Democrat/Libertarian/Capitalist/Socialist/Anarchist or a SJW/Cultural Marxist even etc).
-Synaesthesia
-Intellectual Giftedness (including those with advanced scholastic skills, and independent thinking minded (preferably ideologically free), socially awkward/inept, nerdy, eccentric, and quirky people with an innately abnormal sensory processing network).
-Hyperlexia
-Dyslexia
-Savant Syndrome (both autistic, acquired and sudden - including the intellectually disabled).
-Hyperthymesia
-Allesthesia
-Mnemonism
-Any CNS with a neuropsychological profile that explicates an underlying prodigious ability or talent (includes late bloomers).
-Any mysterious neuro-cognitive syndromes that elucidates the presence of an anomalous and discernible range of human abilities.
-Nonverbal cases of ASD with at least average cognitive/intellectual/expressive ability or higher. (e.g. Dora Raymaker, Amelia Baggs, Sharisa Joy Kochmeister, DJ Savarese, Carly Fleischmann, Amy Sequenzia (Some of whom use the controversial technique Facilitated Communication (FC) - only purported to work for 5% of the severely disabled, low-functioning autistics).

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Neutral:

-Non-verbal Learning Disability (NVLD)
-Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD)
-Mendelsohnn's syndrome (Schizotypal autism - very rare neurodevelopmental disorder associated with a proliferation of Asperger syndrome characteristics and Schizotypal Personality intertwined - if you don't take into account of the underlying and debilitating mental health problems present). viewtopic.php?t=267819
-Selective mutism (unless it's so disabling)
-Tourette's syndrome (mild cases or any one proud of their Coprolalia, which has nothing to do with TS).
-Dyscalculia
-Dyspraxia (mild cases).
-Attention Deficit Disorder (mild cases)
-William's Syndrome (if you discard the underlying intellectual handicaps and physiological anomalies that can be detrimental if not treated).

Bad to the just plain dangerous (no beneficence to the individuals personality nor their innate abilities)

-Severe autism
-Intellectual Disabilities (Don't want to be harsh, but I equivocate it's acceptance as a form of "neurodiversity" to "fat acceptance" and pro-Ana activism).
-Genetic and Chromosomal Disorders (where mild to severe intellectual impairments, developmental disabilities and detrimental physiological anomalies are attributed to).
-Cerebral Palsy
-Epilepsy (inc Temporal Lobe Epilepsy)
-Circadian rhythm disorders
-Anomic aphasia
-Neurodegenerative diseases
-Developmental Linguistic Disorders
-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (Moderate to severe cases)
-Clinical Depression (inc Dysthymia & Manic Depressive Disorder)
-Bipolar Disorder
-Social Anxiety Disorder
-Anorexia Nervosa (the pro-Ana collective mentality which is a result of a mysterious cognitive distortion found in some AN patients supports this as an "alternative lifestyle").
-Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) (very dubious DSM-5 diagnosis)
-Schizophrenia (the postulated link to creativity is of-course nowhere enough to justify preserving this disease).
-Intermittent explosive disorder
-Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
-Schizoaffective Disorder
-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
-Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
-Histrionic Personality Disorder
-Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
-Antisocial personality Disorder & Clinical Psychopathy/Sociopathy
-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
-Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
-Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorders (ODD & CD)
-Depersonalization disorder (DPD)
-Any other eating, anxiety, somatization, factious, sleep, psychotic, and substance use disorder
-Any other psycho-cognitive impediment

A preponderant amount of the neuroatypical, non-neurodiverse disorders retrospectively mentioned within the "bad" group in my view are a conspicuously over-sufficient source of revenue for the medical-industrial complex or multinational pharmaceutical-industrial complex (Pharmacorporatocracy), the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association and the British Medical Association. The mass profiteering on some irrationalized preservation of these disorders would unprecedentedly depreciate if a gifted scientist found a cure for them which is the moral absolutist and rational way to go.

Thanks for replies although I do have to point out that many people with mild intellectual disabilities can function reasonable well and live normal life spans. my best friend has a mild intellectual disability and lives on his on with some support so not everyone with an intellectual disability is severely disabled by it. However I totally get your point with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities

Isn't the fact that people classify some of these disorders as "bad" and having no "beneficience" the whole reason the neurodiversity movement started in the first place?

For example, bipolar disorder. You classify this is as bad and having no benefit to the individual who has it.

I have bipolar disorder and it is a large part of who I am, how I work, how I live. It has given me a vivid imagination and I wouldn't be such a prolific or accomplished writer without it. There are definitely bad aspects, it is definitely trying and sometimes downright dangerous, but it is such an integral part of me and how I interact with the world that I wouldn't know who I was without it, and wouldn't want to be that person.

I have heard people say the exact same things as my above paragraph about their experience as being autistic.