Logan Five ThousandI’m just curious, which category would you put yourself under?
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Neurodivergent
Neurotypical
I don’t know.
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FirefighterGeek 
We all believe we're unique and special.
It's called the Forer Effect (aka the Barnum Effect) and it's why things like "cold readings" and other fake mystical bullshit works so well.
There's an awesome and easy to do group experiment that proves it.
Barnum Effect | Psychology of Self-Deception & Misattribution
Barnum Effect, in psychology, the phenomenon that occurs when individuals believe that personality descriptions apply specifically to them (more so than to other people), despite the fact that the description is actually filled with information that applies to everyone. The effect means that people
undead enby of the apocalypse@FirefighterGeek @LoganFive I’m pretty sure many people here said they were neurodivergent because they actually are. Neurodivergent is a pretty wide umbrella term and from my experience mastodon tends to be a place where neurodivergent people gather.
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @LoganFive Well yeah, that's probably true. It is for me. I've been "medication supported" for a couple of decades and I'm not that unusual.
Still, I think without distinction, most people don't consider themselves 'typical'. The DSM-5 is pretty specific on most of its symptom lists, that while many people match many descriptions, each should only be considered if it is significant enough to impact the way they live. Otherwise, we'd all be self diagnosed.