Amir E. AharoniMay 6, 2025

"Once you take autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and all the other ways that you can developmentally be different from the typical, you actually don’t get many typical people left."

Majority in UK now ‘self-identify’ as neurodivergent

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/self-diagnose-neurodivergent-99l9kl8v5

Majority in UK now ‘self-identify’ as neurodivergent

Reduced stigma about conditions such as autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia has led more people to seek medical opinion or self-diagnose

The Sunday Times
Show threadAmir E. AharoniMay 6, 2025

I never liked the labels "neurodivergent" and "neurotypical" very much. Who gets to define what is typical and what is divergent?

I'd be so much happier if the terminology moved to neutrally describing specific traits. For example, one Wikipedian once said that *some* other Wikipedians are "literally-oriented". This is specific and neutral. (I didn't count, but I suspect that this is true about not just some, but *many* Wikipedians, quite possibly most.)

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@aharoni For more formal mentions, I like and agree with your ideas here. -- On the more informal side... I've heard/seen (and used!) the term "neurospicy" a lot in recent years. Enwiki has a redirect for it to "neurodiversity" but it's sadly not mentioned directly in the article yet. But it's a fun label for self identification!
May 6, 2025 at 9:12pmTusky
Show threadAmir E. AharoniMay 6, 2025
@quiddity "spicy"... is also kind of non-neutral. Not necessarily in a positive direction, but it implies the existence of "non-spicy" (or bland?), and I don't know what does it even mean. And it's not that I don't understand it intuitively, but it *could* be misunderstood.