• snooggums@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Autism and ADHD are just things everyone does to some extent, just dialed up to the point of it impacting their lives. Everyone forgets things, everyone can be distracted, everyone can take things literally, everyone can feel uncomfortable in unfamiliar settings, or be overwhelmed by noises. Most people just have a higher tolerance for a lot of those things, or may even have the reverse where too much familiarity or silence can be uncomfortable.

    Nuerotypical tends to describe people who cope with those kinds of feelings, or who don’t obsess about their mistakes and roll with it in a way that doesn’t have a significant impact on their lives.

    So while you could be on the spectrum, it is also likely that you just became aware of something everyone does and if it doesn’t cause you problems often then you wouldn’t be on the spectrum, which tends to describe a spectrum of symptoms that doe cause problems.