Me, upvoting everyone ITT, wondering if it’s okay to think that I might be a little neurodivergent despite never being diagnosed, also feeling nothing but love for disabled comrades and rage toward all those who mistreat you.
Neurodivergence is like thirty separate, sometimes-crossing spectrums where if you're too far from the middle of one or more of the spectrums, you have some degree of dysfunction relative to everyone else.
Having been diagnosed in my late twenties, I don't think the American health care system can be relied on to make this call. It's such a crapshoot, and so many people are denied regular access, I don't know if there's even much of a point in being diagnosed.
Also, based purely on anecdotal evidence, it seems like if you think you might be then the odds are good that you are.
There's the issue of not having healthcare or parents that would care enough to see if the issues you're having are neurodivergence. Like I've definitely got something or another but I don't know that I'll ever have an opportunity to get diagnosed.
Me, upvoting everyone ITT, wondering if it’s okay to think that I might be a little neurodivergent despite never being diagnosed, also feeling nothing but love for disabled comrades and rage toward all those who mistreat you.
Neurodivergence is like thirty separate, sometimes-crossing spectrums where if you're too far from the middle of one or more of the spectrums, you have some degree of dysfunction relative to everyone else.
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Possibly.
Having been diagnosed in my late twenties, I don't think the American health care system can be relied on to make this call. It's such a crapshoot, and so many people are denied regular access, I don't know if there's even much of a point in being diagnosed.
Also, based purely on anecdotal evidence, it seems like if you think you might be then the odds are good that you are.
There's the issue of not having healthcare or parents that would care enough to see if the issues you're having are neurodivergence. Like I've definitely got something or another but I don't know that I'll ever have an opportunity to get diagnosed.