Current Events > Is Neurodivergent the new "I'm totally OCD"?

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imagine you're playing a video game. The video game is secretly set to the highest difficulty for you, while everybody else is playing on normal. Everybody insists the game is set to normal, and you believe them. You see how much easier it is for them and they see how much more you are struggling and the only logical explanation is that you are either just fucking terrible at the game, or just aren't trying hard enough to be as good as them. Now you have an idea of what it's like growing up with an undiagnosed neurodivergance AND a good lead in to why there seems to be heavy overlap between these disorders and various depression / mood disorders.

So... You don't see a problem with what you just said? At all? You're basically doing the same thing that parents do to their kids to avoid the stigma of mental illness. "You don't have a disorder, you just need to apply yourself more"

You're digging yourself deeper and deeper into that hole. Maybe you should stop?

Yeah, so what Conflict said.

We ARE our brains. the way our brains function or don't function does indeed define who we are.

Clearly you've never experienced something like that or you wouldn't be mocking people who mention that
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It's absolutely a way that some people's anxiety can manifest.

Every touch, ever stray hair, every sound, all magnified to extreme levels. Everything is demanding the full attention of your nervous system and that fully overloads it.

Hope no one who cares about you has problems like this because it's clear you wouldn't care about them.

Relax. I'm talking about people who overdo it and more so people who don't legitimately have that specific issue but rather say that they do for attention.

See my above post.

Why does it matter? How do you know they're faking it and is the assumption they are worth the risk that you are wrong? It doesn't affect you in any meaningful way so just move along

Obviously because I personally know these people.

Fuck kinda question is this?

And they're annoying. I'm not going around punching them in the face. I just give them shit.

Again, relax.

I mentioned feeling concerned about the people that would "fake it" and bring negative attention to people that don't, and they said "Why does it even matter?"

They're possibly using it as a coping mechanism for some other issues in their life and there's nothing wrong with it.

I believe the vast majority of people who say they have a mental health disorder truly have one, but it's cringe how it's become such a flex for some people. It's all some people want to talk about

Or you could leave them alone because it's easier to not be a jerk about something that doesn't affect you (minor annoyance isn't being affected)

You're right. You've convinced me and I will completely change my ways.

You dont think I know myself and my own limitations. I know I could have been better at math if I cared at all and wasnt ridiculously lazy when it came to school work.

If I had been given this diagnosis as a kid, I also know it would have accelerated me giving up on math completely. It would have been just the excuse I needed to stop trying and blame it on something else.

Also do you know how often yall try to get everyone to stop arguing when you think youre right? Does it ever work? You think maybe you should stop?

lol

Stop being so antagonistic

Ive only seen this neurodivergent term mentioned online and mostly by obnoxious people on Twitter or Tik Tok who make their mental illness or their supposed mental Illness a central part of their identity.

People who fake these things definitely exist (and it's not always the person themself; especially in children it's often the parents / caregivers), but they're the minority compared to those who legitimately have such conditions, and "they're faking it" should never be the default assumption.

It's the same mentality a lot of people take with sexual abuse accusations. It's really fucked up and I honestly blame the people who think this way more than the small minority of fakers that "give the legitimate people a bad name".

Not sure why you've now somehow reached the conclusion that you would have been diagnosed with dyscalculia. There are specific things they look for when diagnosing disorders and disabilities. They aren't just cramming everyone that struggles at all into these categories.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fakedisordercringe/

You're out here shitting on people with disorders. I'm offended because you're being antagonistic.

The hell are you even on about. I can only assume you posted cause you felt the need to post rather than having anything to say.

I do still kind of feel bad that someone lacks outward personality so much they gotta pretend they have an ailment and make that their personality. I doubt anyone actually wants to be that person. If they could understand how to get help out of it and learn to be happy being themselves, they'd probably take it.

How is this topic still here?

Literally such a widespread problem theres a whole subreddit and hundreds of examples.