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queer neurodivergent international students - Coggle Diagram
queer neurodivergent international students
coming to the UK for higher education (University, Undergraduate/Postgraduate studies, professional career path..)
challenges found in not receiving DSA funding for disability support (financial issues, lack of proper support, isolation from both home-country and UK)
why coming to the UK? is disability-awareness a factor taken into account when deciding to study there? is queerness another?
how do students learn about the UK being a neurodiverse-queer-friendly place? (social media, relatives, online friends..)
actively or hoping to seek diagnosis in the UK (lack of medical diagnosis in their countries, restrictive environment because of family/stigma..)
interviewing international students who wish to/have wished to come study in the UK: why the UK (in relation to queerness and neurodiversity)? why didn't they (highlighting the gap between working-class internationals and the small amount of them actually studying in England)?
in comparison to their home-country: how does their family perceive their identity? how is queerness and neurodiversity perceived (socially and medically)?
receiving more support than in home-countries (from peers, academic staff, medical staff, public institutions, University..)
importance of the English language
safe space
expressing queerness more freely (compared to home-countries, open-mindedness of English culture..)
queer community (found in University, in English speaking spaces, in media (Instagram, Discord, Tiktok..)
why is that? distance from family/relative? more independance? culture difference? academic environment? seeking to build a career path so needing to build an authentic self?
neurodivergent community
more awareness and knowledge surrounding neurodiversity in the UK (medically and socially)
able to seek diagnosis without shame/stigma (from family/friends/home-country's society)
representational value (queer literature/media/arts, neurodivergent students/academics/research..)
is that what constitute a safe space for them? is it what they value/seek in a safe space coming to University in the UK?
special interest (in linguistics, language, english-speaking media..)
neurodiversity enabling/favouring the creation of English as a safe space
providing linguistic representation and understanding of their identities (queer and neurodivergent terminologies in English not found in their native language)
English language and lingusitics enabling the reading of queer disabled bodies (why? how?)
is it thanks to literature? to the soft power of the English language to spread worldwide? or is its worldwide quality enabling a wider shaping of the language for neuroqueer individuals?
in comparison to home-country: is there a process of estrangement from their native language? feeling of no longer belonging to their home-country?
double identity? openly neurodivergent & queer in the UK and closeted neurtypical in home-country
risks of this sense of 'estrangement' from home-country: isolation when with family? loss of family/friends connections? guilt from leaving? feeling ... for neuroqueer friends back home for lower-classes background that cannot study abroad?
does it impact the way they feel about this 'safe space'? is there resentment towards England for providing a safe space only for a few international (financial cost, erasing working-class)? and for being an ambiguous safe space that obliges them to have a double identity (exhausting)? alienation from this double identity?
does this alienated state lead to them wishing to open-up about their true identity in their home-country? or do they feel forever doomed to 'acting' different?
how do they imagine their future (career, family situation..)? do they plan on living in English speaking countries? or coming back to their home-countries at some point?
is there fear surrounding this coming back to their home-land? apprehension/planning on staying in the UK as long as possible?
is the English language enabling the connection between their queerness and their neurodiversity? is it enabling self-acceptance?
how is your neurodivergence contributing to your queerness or the other way around?