“Almost anyone can be viewed as defective or abnormal under our current medicalized model of mental illness—at least during particularly trying periods of their lives when they are depressed or their coping breaks down. In this way, neurotypicality is more of an oppressive cultural standard than it actually is a privileged identity a person has.”

We also miss out on some of the most beautiful moments of our short lives. We are the first generation who may remember more about our screens than actual lived experiences. This is a PURPOSEFUL design. The ONLY motivation behind this is to feed corporations money while we watch their ads. You are a mere dollar sign in the system to be controlled and puppeteered.

We can acknowledge the powerful positive changes artificial light has brought us for necessary uses while still being present to the fact that it IS harming our health at night, in our homes, when it would be ideal for us to be experiencing deep rest. Lacking deep rest is a completely new issue that has arisen in the last 120 years. This is not normal and it is deleterious to our functioning.

Our neurotransmitters and hormones are experiencing massive change without anything to support us through that change - and generally, not a lot of deep reflection on the meaning of this change. Studies have found that we have become so well trained to check our smartphones (two-thirds of us check our phones approximately 160 times per day) that our bodies generate the stress hormone cortisol when we haven’t checked them for a while.