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⌈ Secret Post #5462 ⌋

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Re: Does the Neurotypical Person actually exist?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm guessing you and I saw the same post, although I didn't see the comment about scrubbing toilets.

I thought it was a serviceable metaphor, maybe not worded perfectly, but I can't count the number of times I've been told "I don't know what's so difficult about (whatever task), just do it, it takes five minutes," and for some stuff that I objectively agree shouldn't be that hard, my brain substitutes "skinny dip in a piranha tank" or maybe "pull out all my own teeth with rusty pliers."

I always understood the separation between neurodivergent and neurotypical to be pretty fuzzy, and also a matter of degree and how much/negatively it impacts your life.

If you worry about an upcoming blind date like "what if we don't like each other," and then you go on the date and decide not to go on another because you didn't enjoy yourself, your anxiety about the date didn't have much of an impact.

If you are so freaked out that you don't leave your apartment for six months after the not great date, you've got issues and need help.

It's obvious why there'd be more people talking about their issues anonymously or pseudo-anonymously online than most places irl that aren't group therapy sessions--if you can't handle in person interaction that well (raises hand) the anonymity and/or separation from real life acts as a buffer. Unfortunately sometimes that means people think they're free to be shitheads online.

I forget if there's a term for it, but sometimes it does feel like the internet can be like first year psychology or med students that turn into hypochondriacs diagnosing themselves and each other with all the stuff they learn about in class, when they're mostly fine. But lots of people who are actually mentally fucked up disproportionally spend more of their time online, too.

Idk if this holds true everywhere, but in the US the estimate is that 1/4 of the population has a mental disorder, otherwise known as being neurodivergent, and with US access to healthcare being complete shit and mental healthcare lurking somewhere behind dental so far as affordability and accessibility go, it would not surprise me if that's an underestimate.

--someone who used to bite people and hide under tables in class all the way through high school, and still can't keep my house clean, but has never been formally diagnosed with anything.