Crowd wisdom needed:

If I’m right about neurodiversity, it should be reflected in our human culture somewhere.

I would expect to see it as personality types attached to something like mythical creatures. Is anyone aware of anything please?

I’d much rather explain myself as “someone touched by the Japanese cloud dragon” (made up for example) then say “I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder but it’s not a disorder, I’m not hyperactive unless fed an unnaturally sugary diet and my attention isn’t really in deficit except before my first coffee and before bed.”

So. Everyone. Where is it in our culture?… (and no, modern eugenicists don’t count as they are wrong).

Boost for coverage please.

@taatm
Seems like a good question for @TarkabarkaHolgy

@notsoloud @taatm here is at least one Hungarian folktale I know where the Fairy Queen is definitely ADHD 😄

Also, I am fairly sure Palamedes was on the spectrum

@taatm changeling myths on fairie where children who are kidnapped and replaced by a fae. (Characteristics of changelings match Autism symptoms).

@YellowReadis True.
I see Type 1 diabetes seen as demonic possession (those poor kids!). We know UV sensitivity was seen as vampirism.

So yea, good point, mythology capture of ADHD was probably very negative as everyone instinctively feels they are normal therefore everyone else is abnormal.

Our evolved sense of self has taken a shortcut in self-normalisation.