Any mental illness could be regarded as a type of diversity. Or even literally everybody since all of our brains are unique.

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[–] -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours 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. My friend almost had me committed to a hospital at one point. That is not typical. It is among the human variation, sure, but it is absolutely not common.

    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:

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

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