• floridaman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    wait wait wait people actually just look up??? like i thought that it was always the second one. i guess the explanation helps, cause I defo didn’t see it when I first heard it lol

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      1 year ago

      Seriously, why do some people seem to insist that every single behavioral trait is ND?

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        1 year ago

        They’re seeing things in themselves that are different from (what they correctly or mistakenly perceive as) the “norm”. Since most NDs have experienced being scolded, ridiculed, shamed, ostracised for being “different”, some over and over again, for all their life, they’ve internalised that the “weird” thing is their fault, that there’s something inherently wrong with them. Recontextualising a (new) “weird” thing as a consequence of their neurodivergence makes it not their fault or at least lessens the feeling of “wrong”. … I keep saying “they” as if I don’t catch myself doing it.