• MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    The spectrum being so broad (and often mixed with Autism/Aspergers or vice-versa) is just because the brain is really good at making things still somehow work.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      What? Autism and/or ADHD isn’t an example of the brain making “things still somehow work”. That’s a pretty offensive thing to say honestly.

      If you want an example of the brain’s phenomenal ability to adapt, you could instead look to people born with literally half of their brain missing.

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        7 months ago

        That’s a pretty offensive thing to say honestly.

        I mean with this, that the brain has a priority in keeping consciousness up and is really good at that. Autism/Aspergers/ADHD are all cases with some issues in our neuro-chemical household but we still somehow work. Heck, there are even cases of people with a waterhead, the brain only being a few mm thick layer along the skull but they still lived a normal life.

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          7 months ago

          Oh, got it. You’ve got issues with the implication of being “defective”? We call ourselves neurodivergent, not defective, no?

      • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        You’re not reading the words correctly. Try again. It’s clear you can’t read intent of someone clearly is.