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Either that or they're under-diagnosing the disorder, which would explain why there is growing genetic evidence and fuck-all evidence of it having any environmental cause. However, the idea that neurodivergent disorders are actually fairly common, and that we only believe they aren't because symptom expression is traditionally beaten out of children who then grow up to become ineffectual adults, is uncomfortable to contemplate because it would mean that an entire dimension of society has been structured incorrectly for generations.
If they are common are they really disorders or just everyones different?
I sympathize with that point of view, but there just isn't an outcome where we don't pathologize anyone who deviates from the norm.
That sounds sad my dude