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When people say to me, “yeah, but everyone does that” or “everyone deals with that, it is normal” when discussing my ADHD or ASD
I respond with;
“Everyone goes to the bathroom, what, once? Twice a day, right? … well, if you were going to the bathroom 60 times a day we can agree something is wrong and you should probably see a doctor about that, right? Good, I am glad we can agree on that.”
I always use the pregnancy analogy. Maybe you have morning sickness sometimes and crave certain foods, but that doesn’t mean you are pregnant. You either have a baby in you or you don’t.
Edit: crave, not crazy
Oh my god I use this SAME EXACT analogy
Like we all zone out, we all forget something or draw a blank, we all have to write stuff down, we all sometimes get super interested or excited about a topic, it’s called being a person
However for you it’s not creating a scenario where those are impeding your lives regularly and j say regularly because I’m sure someone has lost a job or something over forgetting something even tho our example person normally has good memory
Idk I kinda lost my train of thought near the end
Technically true (best kind), it is a spectrum, so yeah most people will have some form of. Because of that, a bit of understanding and empathy would be appropriate, not the usual ignorance and condescending this meme so nicely points out.
Edit: thanks everyone, you all gave me a lot to learn and think about, I really appreciate it.
I agree with the sentiment, but something being a spectrum, does not mean that everyone has >0 of it. It just means that people that DO have it arent all affected the same way.
Schizophrenia is also a spectrum but you wouldnt say everyone is a little schizophrenic, because they simply arent at all.
This isn’t what a spectrum is. People who say “everyone has a little autism/adhd” are just wrong. Imagine somebody saying “everybody is a little pregnant” because people sometimes get nauseous in the morning and crave certain foods. It doesn’t work, you are either pregnant or not pregnant, and either adhd/autistic or not
That’s actually very false, and it is important for people to learn about their mental well-being.
On the spectrum of mental health where the perfectly healthy are on the very left, and the perfectly unhealthy are on the very right. The majority of people lie somewhere in the middle.
Mental disorders are not binary, like being pregnant or not being pregnant. There is a sliding scale. How much that disorder affects certain aspects of your life is how we measure the severity of that disorder.
Yeah, none of that has anything to do with the neurodivergent spectrum. Also, it isn’t a scale from minor to major. It’s an informal extension of the autism spectrum to include the other neurodivergent conditions, since there tends to be a lot of comorbidity across ASD, ADHD, ASPD, NPD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, etc. But, to be included in the spectrum, you have to have a neurodivergent condition. If you don’t, that would make you neurotypical and that would put you in a different spectrum.
Edit: being neurotypical doesn’t mean you should get help for your mental health. Everyone should, we’re animals who made society and we’re not equipped to handle all of… this gestures everywhere
Nobody is perfectly healthy, but that doesn’t mean everybody has the specific medical condition of autism or adhd.
That’s not an accurate analogy.
Autism is like a blueprint for how the brain is wired. You wouldn’t say that all X86 microprocessors are a little bit ARM and most CPU’s are somewhere in the middle.
Theres a big difference between someone who gets distracted once in a while, and someone who cannot reliably function without treatment.
My fucking therapist said this to me. Like, really lady?
