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I agree with the spirit of what you're saying here, we need solidarity amongst marginalized groups. But scientific classification doesn't back up your opinion on the semantics here.
Thank you for neatly ordering your points, I'll address them in kind.
#1 - Personality disorders are not organic things you are born with, they can and often are successfully treated. They can be long lasting and even life long, but proper treatment can result in full remission. A neurodivergence itself is a genetic brain structural deviation from the average that can only be worked around/compensated for to help improve one's quality of life - but the fundamentals of their brain structure does not change. To put it another way, we could say that a person's personality becomes disordered.
#2 - Trauma does not contribute to the development of a neurodivergence, but it does exacerbate negative outcomes and hurts people's ability to adapt to their difficulties. There's typically higher rates of diagnoses in homes that have a lot of traumatic events because these homes usually don't have the resources to help them adapt or mask. This is not a causal role, and there is no difference in brain structure between these cohorts. The increase in diagnoses is due to increased public knowledge and less stigma.
#3 - This gets to the heart of what we're going back and forth on - basically it's semantics. I'm looking at this as official classifications - neurodivergence being the thing that you're born with vs. brain changes that happened due to trauma post birth (neurological stress responses). We should probably develop a better single word term for these conditions... maybe there is one but it's escaping me if there is. Classification of conditions for treatment isn't intended to divide groups to be stigmatized, but unfortunately it does get used by people to sew division. There's terms that neurodivergent people, people with personality disorders, and people with other stigmatized conditions all fall under - "marginalized people" among many other ways of saying it. I'm not advocating for exclusion of people with PDs from our solidarity, it's just a different type struggle that they face with close parallels to neurodivergence.
I hope that all makes sense.
As for DroneRights... it was trying to excuse its shitty behavior and calling people bigoted if they disagreed. I'm not going to support someone who's trying to be a wrecker because we're both marginalized.