The Importance of Delivery Food to the Neurodivergent

Hot take: The people helped most by Delivery Food are the Neurodivergent and disabled. Sure, it’s handy for neurotypical and physically able people. For the rest of us, Delivery Food is the only way we can get a meal in some situations. Take Executive Dysfunction as an example.

Executive Dysfunction is where you just can’t do anything. You want to do something, but for whatever reason there’s a disconnect between your body and your brain. So you’re just sitting there, screaming at your body to move, while your body screams “You’re not the boss of me.” It’s a surreal experience.

This can be caused by a variety of different things, and how it can break is just as varied. In some instances, it just… stops. Suddenly you’re able to get up and do things and everything is fine. Other times, you finally get to the point where you can do one thing before your body tells you to fuck off again. Naturally, this is not conducive to required actions for living. So you’ve been stuck staring at youtube or netflix for 12 hours, when you finally get your body to do something. You aren’t able to convince your body to move to the kitchen and make a full meal, but switching on an app/bringing up a delivery website doesn’t take much from you.

This may sound like someone being lazy, but I have personally had periods of up to 3 days where I don’t have the ability to do anything besides go back and forth from the bed, only remembering to bother getting food on the third day. Honestly, contactless delivery has been a huge help with this. Not being worried about how you or your apartment looks to some rando who’s standing at your door until you take your food (while being polite because you don’t want to seem like an asshole) makes it much easier to bother with the whole process.

So where am I going with this? Maybe stop crying every time someone wants to raise the minimum wage of these people. And let them form unions. And just stop treating them like shit in general.

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