Today I want to talk to you about assumptions.
Assumptions are something that everyone will encounter at various times throughout their lives.
When you make an assumption, you tell yourself that something is true without actually having any evidence that it is.
They can be both internal, when you come up against your own assumptions, and external, when you come up against the assumptions of people around you.
Assumptions in real life.
As someone with dyslexia, I have encountered assumptions both internally within myself and externally from those around me. External assumptions tend to come up in one of two ways, sometimes someone will see the neurodiverse label and make assumptions about my capability before I've spoken to them. In other instances, usually when I've gotten to know someone, they are shocked to find out that I am neurodiverse, they assumed that I'm not based on their preconceived notions of what neurodiversity is, their unconscious bias.
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