I like this approach. “funny meme” aside, I think it is a good way of showing how much a certain language can affect how other people think and feel about a subject. Just read it THAT way and “being neurotypical” suddenly sounds like a disorder that isn’t fully compatible with the public, doesn’t it?
We live in a world that isn’t exactly kind to people on the spectrum. It is loud, flashy, hectic, overwhelming, unrewarding but you’re still expected to work like a cog in a machine, despite having fewer and fewer places where you’d actually “fit in” without grinding gears, and whenever there is some sort of public talk about that topic, it always, always sounds like the affected person is the problem and personally responsible for fixing themselves, when a no small part of “not fitting in” is due to society itself. Maybe a change in language is due to remove that stigma.
I’m beginning to get the impression that people with autism reaaaally don’t like people witbout autism.
Points 2 and 5 are waaaay off but the rest are pretty funny.
Point 2 is literally the definition of ND folk who get ankle deep in a new hobby then abandon it when their interest passes.
Point 5… I’d wager the vast majority of ND people blow at math. They also absolutely suck at seeing patterns you aren’t hyper focusing on lol. It’s literally baked into the diagnoses of ADHD comorbidities.
Every time you avoid small talk you get a lovely sticker
Germans: I have so many stickers!
Finns: crushed by weight of stickers, nobody calling for help
wait the number pattern thing is autism? I’m sorry, I have ADHD and the ADHD doctor also told me I’m probably on the spectrum. wow I love number pattern stuff though, I didn’t know it was associated.
I got 81 as a table number the other day and I was stoked because it’s 3^4. on reflection the doctor was probably right.
ADHD and autism are commonly comorbid.
Got any strong opinions on trains or planes
I mean yeah if I described autism using a bunch of statements that absolutely do not define autism, then it would sound dumb and bad. OP is acting like this is a list of neurotypical behaviors when it’s actually just an inverted list of neurodivergent behaviors. Neurotypicality is not the reciprocal of neurodivergence.
It literally is though. How would you define “neurodivergence” if not “everything which is not neurotypical”?
“Divergent” does not equal “opposite”.
A turtle is different than a lizard, the two lineages “diverged” evolutionarily at some point. I could describe a lizard as a scaled, heterothermic, terrestrial organism. If I describe something as a scale-less, homeothermic, non-terrestrial organism, I’m not describing a turtle, I’m just describing a “non-lizard”. Don’t confuse “neurodivergent” with “anti-neurotypical”, they’re not the same thing.
By your logic, for a person to be considered “neurodivergent” they would have to be completely 100% unlike a neurotypical person in every single way, which is simply not the case.
Right, but the reptile parts are implicit. The average neurotypical and neurodivergent person is human, they all talk and walk, have five fingers, a normal physique, etc.
So if I describe a turtle as an aquatic reptile with flippers and a shell, then terrestrial reptile with normal legs and not having a shell does kinda describe a lizard.
