Any mental illness could be regarded as a type of diversity. Or even literally everybody since all of our brains are unique.
It literally means the opposite of neurotypical and covers way more than autism and ADHD. Such as:
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Bipolar Disorder
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Schizophrenia
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Major Depression
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Anxiety disorders
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Etc
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It doesn’t…
Just curious, does me being, for example, a massive Mensa type genius make me neurodivergent? Asking for a friend.
It doesn’t.
It doesn’t? It includes things like cptsd
You want the official answer or the somewhat more “woke” answer?
Technically, it doesn’t. Neurodivergent is a broad umbrella that means a number of different disorders. Including, but not limited to, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, developmental prosopagnosia, developmental speech disorders, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, intellectual disability, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD), obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), sensory processing disorder, synesthesia, Tourette syndrome, and more.
Why do most people THINK it only means Autism and ADHD? They tend to get more media attention.
The “woke” bit is Autism and ADHD have been historically “male coded” disorders, while things like Bipolar, OCD, etc. were either female coded or gender neutral in popular culture. For a long time they didn’t even think women could have Autism or ADHD.
I for one don’t want to pretend I didn’t benefit from more pearl clutching over people’s “perfect baby boys” being a little atypical neurologically. I did, and it’s silly to pretend I didn’t. Also as one of the “Flagship” neurodivergences, I’m also more likely to end up in a MAHA gas chamber to “Purify the Gene Pool”, so there’s both upsides and downsides to penis-privilage, but at least people care which is more than some other spectra get.
Those are probably the most common forms of neurodiversity, but they definitely aren’t the only ones.
Any mental illness could be regarded as a type of diversity.
Yes, that’s the purpose of the term “neurodivergent”, to destigmatize mental illness. Many mental illnesses can be lived with, in a relatively normal way, and could also benefit from societal awareness, accommodation and integration. Also, they could incur a risk of discrimination. They also have no cure, just like a physical disability e.g. a leg amputation, is simply a different body condition that will not change. Much like “person with disability”, the correct term should be “neurodivergent person” or “person with neurodivergency”, to avoid the misappropriation of the word as a derogatory term.
The “all brains are unique” side, doesn’t actually work. It’s a slippery slope that runs the risk of rendering oppressed minorities invisible. See the, “we are all sexually diverse”, dog whistle that was used in right wing rhetoric as an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ pride.
It doesn’t.
it doesn’t, but that’s how internet weirdos use it almost exclusively because they are circle jerking about their self-diagnoses mostly.
Sometimes I feel as though I am a bit “neruodivergent” in that I am much more sensitive than others in a very significant and rather painful way…yet I do not have anything remotely like ADHD or autism, so I don’t call myself it.
No, I do not at all meet the criteria of HSP either. My sensitivity is specific to interpersonal relationships, but does NOT involve the five senses.
It’s called being a normal person. Everyone is more sensitive to friends and family than random strangers…
This obsessive need to pathologize ordinary life expereinces is counter-productive to everyone. You’re not special, you’re just boring and average. Most online ‘neurodivergents’ are not autistic or adhd, they are just self-appointed obsessive jerks who can’t own up to their social failings (which often aren’t even really failings in real life, just in their own heads.)
Way too many online weirdos basically want to be mentally ill, because it gives them something to blame that isn’t themselves and it absolves them of responsibility they are so desperately seeking to avoid.
What’s funny is the internet blew up tomorrow most of these so called neurodivergent would be forced to mingle in real life with folks all their self-proclaimed issues would go away because they wouldn’t have online spaces to bias confirm themselves into a neurotic fixation there is something ‘wrong’ with them. Or worse, try to convince others of their ‘diagnosis’ they are throwing random based on a few random internet comments. They also couldn’t circlejerk themselves hours per day about what morally superior geniuses they are based on what flavor of linux they use.
It doesn’t? People with any mental illness can use the term and are probably not going to specify that neurodivergent can include other mental illnesses.
Wiki:
Neurodivergences include autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, developmental prosopagnosia, developmental speech disorders, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, intellectual disability, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), sensory processing disorder, synesthesia, Tourette syndrome, and more.
