Neurodiversity inclusion minimising difficulties

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It’s neurodiversity celebration week so many positive messages are popping up on social media at the moment.
I saw the one below about changing the narrative- in my view this type of thinking minimises the difficulties and stops people getting the support they need.
For example fidgety turns to energetic. To me it’s not about being energetic , it could be being over stimulated or uncomfortable with a situation.
Quiet changes to thoughtful. It’s important to look at why someone is being quiet, why aren’t they making themselves heard. Stating they are thoughtful brushes over the underlying difficulties.

I am happy to accept I’m wrong if I am, perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way.

I hate these 'toxic positivity' types of posts

Is intellectual disability considered under the neurodiversity umbrella? Because it always seems to get forgotten.

This made me quite sad. Partly because I recognise what you say, and partly because of how I think of my daughter's differences. I'm currently off work with stress due to my 'high functioning' 6yo dd's school refusal and mental health breakdown which resulted in her lying in bed, naked, refusing to dress, eat, ot engage for days on end. The flip side of this is that she's also utterly brilliant and the way she thinks about things makes me see the world very differently - which I do view as a kind of super strength. Often she stops me in my tracks with her perception and makes me look at things differently. I think I'd like her to view herself as a superhero, rather than hating herself as she does.

In my view by putting a different spin on it this poster is minimising rather than looking at the why which is so important.
100%

It’s 100% acceptable to say, as someone with ADHD that I lack focus. Because I do. I don’t need this reframed into me being “forward thinking” because 9/10 I’m not thinking at all. And that’s the problem! There is no lovely flowery positive language that magically it into a positive. I need actual solutions like being allowed to wear ear phones / defenders and sometimes being allowed to work from an adapted cupboard because it’s a white box with no distractions. It’s certainly not a superpower having to lock myself in a box to keep my brain from falling out my ear and running off with the fairies.