Comment on Why does neuro divergent only mean Autistic and ADHD?
dingus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sometimes I feel as though I am a bit “neruodivergent” in that I am much more sensitive than others…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, NOT the five senses.
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 day ago
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.
Way too many online weirdos basically want to be mentally ill, because it gives them something to blame that isn’t themselves.
dingus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Look, I get what you’re saying. This new trend of patholgizing everything annoys me too. It’s one of the reasons I generally deny “neruodivergence”, as I said.
But no, the way I’ve experienced emotions is not typical of most people. I struggled intensely during my childhood and in periods of my adulthood because of it. I nearly lost my job last year because of how powerful these emotions are.
It took me actually seeing and recognizing that I am a little bit different than people and it does make me struggle harder than others in order to accept myself and work within my nature instead of against it. I can work with it instead of just trying to clam up and behave like society has always wanted me to.
I had a hell of a lot of therapy since then and I am in a much better place in life than I have ever been before. I also take a medication that I’m not if it is really doing much or not, but I’m afraid to stop taking it just yet.
There is some credence to recognizing that some people may struggle more in life in X way, and others may struggle more in life in Y way.
It’s not in the name of patholgizing for the sake of patholgizing. It’s instead for, as I see it, two reasons:
Understanding what your roadblocks are and that they may differ from others. When you have a roadblock that someone else doesn’t, obviously you then need to find a technique to handle said roadblock.
Compassion and understanding for those who struggle with things that you don’t. You may not be aware how significantly and deeply you are affecting someone simply because you do not even know their struggle exists.
I hope that makes sense.
bryndos@fedia.io 20 hours ago
So long as you've paid them enough to make you "well adjusted" ( to an inhumane society) . . . then good for you. Don't blame you.
But, I don't like that these headshrinkers that never seem diagnose society as being any part of people's problems, even though it is clearly very different from the one that generations of evolution came up through, and has far less place for (and tolerance of) our natural diversity as a species. Not to mention their brethren who pro-actively support the destruction of civil society, seek to empower the ruling classes and basically invented advertising and mass manipulation. I'd find it very hard to put any trust in those fuckers, i'd much rather talk to a homeless person about our problems and give them a tenner for booze.
scallisto@retrofed.com 1 day ago
What the hell mate?!