Disabled and neurodivergent people were never only victims. They resisted, organised and changed language.
This is not only a history of what was done to different minds. It is also a history of different minds speaking back.
The timeline includes horror because the horror is real. But it must not only be a timeline of harm.
Disabled and neurodivergent people have always resisted in whatever ways were available: surviving, communicating, escaping, organising, writing, campaigning, making art, challenging professionals, building communities and changing law.
If the timeline only shows what systems did, it risks making people look passive. They were not. Families fought. Disabled people fought. Autistic people spoke for themselves. Survivors of institutions gave evidence. Campaigners forced law and policy to change.
Progress was not handed down kindly. It was demanded.
This is the hopeful thread that must run through the whole page.
The future is not built by systems suddenly becoming kind. It is built by people refusing to disappear.