Comment on He's just eccentric

Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone with two autistic boys people really be stretching on their undiagnosed definitions of autism.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know how neurodivergence is one category with a lot of different and diverse conditions and spectrums. Neurotypical is that as well. Not all neurotypical people are alike, there’s diversity as well.

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• fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, I think the count of neurodiverse people on lemmy is likely very high (for various reasons). And since it’s highly genetically correlated, likely also the grandparents.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also if we could diagnose the entire world we would find many people who would fall on the high-functioning side of the spectrum. Many people just go undiagnosed for their entire lives. I bet autism is way more common than the science tells us today.

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    • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Certainly, and as I (suspect) to have AuDHD (ADHD diagnosed).

      This combination is really difficult to see/diagnose, as these conditions somewhat cancel each other out. It took me a very hyperfocused deep-dive into all kinds of papers, to slowly come to that conclusion, that ADHD doesn’t explain my behavior alone. AFAIK this is in some regard an active research-area (how correlated are these conditions, are they even the same underlying condition?).

      (I think) few psychiatrists really have a deep insight into that (and thus are accurately diagnosing these).

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Absolutely. Anecdotally, both my husband and I received our diagnosis after we had our son evaluated.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What are the reasons for all us neurodivergent people coming on here?

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    • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would say foremost: strong opinions and idealism (very much correlated to ASD and ADHD) E.g. about the fucked up state of centralized social media controlled by right-wing billionaires.

      Always when I talk to other people I don’t suspect to be neurodivergent, they just don’t really care about it, convenience is the driving factor.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Interesting. As someone diagnosed with ADHD it tracks.

        I wonder if this is how ended up this way. I grew up with my two brothers and about 10-12 really close mates. But none of them share my views and just subscribe to the culture war bs and I often wondered what made me this way as to me I always did have empathy and anti establishment views.

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