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⌈ Secret Post #6478 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This type of "all X people did this" stuff is always bullshit. You could replace "neurodivergent" with a lot of words and still get a large population that pretended/believed/desired to be aliens or something.

[(Anonymous)]

People also forget that "neurodivergent" means a lot of things. I'm neurodivergent but not autistic or ADHD (though there is some overlap with ADHD).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes exactly!

[philstar22]

Yup. It is a catch-all term for anyone whose brain works a little bit different from what is considered the normal way for it to work. Can include a lot of things.

[(Anonymous)]

+1
I’m easily mistaken for autistic and ADHD. But I’m not. I suffered extreme trauma at a young age and it changed my brain which then went on to develop very differently.

[(Anonymous)]

Did a professional tell you this? Because of everything I know, it doesn't matter what caused your brain to become a certain way that determines whether or not you're ND. It's not something you have to be born with and can't develop. If you go through something that changes your brain such that you start having ND behavioral patterns, that's literally being ND. I don't know if you have those behavioral patterns or not, but if you do and people notice, you shouldn't dismiss the idea entirely just because trauma made you that way.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
Yes, this comes from professionals. It’s possible to pinpoint the change and confirm it is trauma based. It is very different from ND because development was normal past key stages. Crucially, at least some of the ways it presents are adapted behaviors that I can and have been reversing. This is not the same as masking, it’s healing from trauma.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

Your point about it being adapted behaviors you are working on reversing is really important and really refreshingly healthy take. A lot of people don't recognize that some behaviors can be reversed or altered and they get really upset when you try to explain. Good luck to you in your healing process, I wish you all the best.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, not OP but I went through a lot of stuff when I was very young - my father has schizophrenia and I'm a late 80s baby - I was a very fidgety kid who couldn't sit still, let alone emotionally regulate. I was the class weirdo who just kind of did her own thing and was bullied mercilessly for it.

I'm a big believer in Neurodivergent as an umbrella term for psychological & neurological differences in brain functioning because I'm proof of this. I know I am. I'm not on the spectrum, I don't have ADHD but I also know my brain doesn't work as a "normal" one does. It never has.

Anyway, first I wanted to be one of the humans in the Pound Puppies movie, then live in Summer Bay (living on a Sydney beach seems better than living in a Melbourne suburb), then work on the 4077th, then a slayer/witch, then Britney Spears if Britney chose JC over Justin.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, I think literally everyone I know did this when they were kids and I know for a fact that most of them are not neurodivergent. It's a completely normal kid thing to do.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Really weird how people are acting like kids pretending to be something/something else is something only ND people do, but honestly? ND do this a lot - take a fairly common trait or behavior and try to claim it as an ND thing.

[(Anonymous)]

My friend's daughter just spent a month insisting she was a unicorn. Why? Because she's three years old and unicorns are the coolest thing in the world to her, so she wanted to be one.

[(Anonymous)]

When they say 'neurodivergent' they really mean 'special', 'not a boring normie', or even 'not a poo-person' (heh).