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NTs aren't running the world. Workaholic sociopaths are running the world.
NDs are becoming more and more socially accepted, and less willing to subjugate themselves. "Neurodivergent" seems to be a misnomer: NTs only seem to be "typical" when NDs closet themselves and try to emulate them.
Routine treatment for autism, that would be something.
I agree with you though.
Routine treatment for autism is applied behavior analysis. While ABA has its origins a hundred years ago, the field as it currently exists is very new, having really only developed in the last 25 years
Good to know. I’ve never heard of it and it’s not a thing in my country.
It's not whether it existed or not, it's the prevalence of it. Nothing wrong with it of course.
Neither the greeks nor the romans were particularly shy about it and... Let's call it non-christian ideas about sex have cropped up at various places and various times in history. That's before the invention of plastics, so it got to be some good proof to be able to point a clear finger away from culture and towards plastics.
Women with ADHD went so underdiagnosed that it's considered an epidemic.
Women over the age of 35 were straight up not diagnosed because "girls don't get ADHD." So I do somewhat disagree with your premise.
Under that age, too... Just turned 30 this year, still working my way around to doing research to find a provider to diagnose me. Which, with the nature of the condition that could take... a while, ha.
it'll probably be the 'forever chemicals' (e.g. pfas) but yea, same deal.
There was a recent Australian study that found a link between BPAs and autism, although I find it hard to believe there's a 1-to-1 link, as autism was a thing before plastics were invented.
Society also had odd little release valves for neurodivergents which bizarrely enough could include parts of the military. Most of those are gone though in exchange at least we get treatment more readily than back then
Have you met these people IRL or online? Most of the people I've met online do fall into one of those two buckets, but almost nobody I've met IRL does.
I would assume this is selection bias before attributing it to some other thing. The kinds of circles you run in are going to heavily affect this.
I'm not sure the typical part is so typical after all. Given the size and complexity of our brains and the difference in DNA between us, I think more or less every family has their own ways of thinking and acting.