They didn’t understand the behavior — so they renamed it. Calling it Oppositional Defiant Disorder didn’t make it more accurate. It just made the system more comfortable. Because it’s easier to label a person “noncompliant” than to ask: What are they resisting? What wasn’t safe? What rules were enforced without care, consistency, or repair? Defiance is often contextual intelligence. A nervous system saying, “This doesn’t feel right.” And when we diagnose resistance instead of interrogating the e

BreakThrough News on Instagram: "Hours after the U.S. announced the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, First Lady Celia Flores, Venezuelans hit the streets in defiance of U.S. imperialism and the abduction of their head of state. The Trump administration claims the U.S. will now “run” Venezuela and “start making money” from its oil. Despite the abduction of Maduro, who is en route to New York to face trial, his government remains in power and has not surrendered."