When Blame Becomes a Uniform

Why calling out the neurodivergent or the aged can make you a soldier for the system

Here’s the truth: if you are blaming the neurodivergent or the aged for being harmed by a system that was never built for them to thrive, then you’ve enlisted yourself in that system’s harmful army.

You’re not being “neutral,” you’re reinforcing harm.

Neurodivergent people aren’t failing at school, work, or relationships — they are navigating structures designed without them in mind.

Older adults aren’t a “burden” — they’re navigating workplaces and communities that treat age as obsolescence instead of wisdom.

When you point the finger at them instead of at the system, you’re doing the system’s work for it.

You become a foot soldier of ableism and ageism — marching in an army you didn’t even realize you joined.

Let’s be clear: the problem is not their existence. The problem is a structure that erases, isolates, and punishes difference.

And if you really care about liberation, you won’t waste time blaming those most harmed by the design — you’ll start dismantling the design itself.

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