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* (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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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