Everyone and their Mom is neurodivergent now it seems.
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“Neuro” means ‘brain’ and “divergent” means ‘doing things a different way’ so it is a word used to describe people who’s brains work in a different way.
When I was little, I had a powerful sense of smell, so every smell was so strong it made me sick to my stomach. So my brain was telling me, “These things smell funny, they must be bad, get rid of the bad stuff you ate so you don’t get really ill!” Because of that I threw up everything I ate and kept having to be put in the hospital. It created a lot of extra problems in my life.
I also have thoughts that connect to each other and fly through my brain at super fast speeds that are so fast I can’t catch them and put those thoughts into words. My head would hurt and I would feel extra tired from thinking so hard and long about so many things all day. I would get really cranky and not understand why I felt so bad. I stopped trying to explain my thoughts because people would be upset that it took me too long to explain things and I felt tired from trying. One teacher even thought my brain wasn’t working much at all because I never spoke to her, when really I stopped speaking because I was tired of her being upset with my attempts to explain things. She wanted to get my brain tested to see if it was working well. A special person called a Developmental Psychiatrist (who knew all about how kids’ brains grow) tested my brain. She found out that not only did it work, it worked SUPER FAST.
They used to not know much about neurodiversity because the technology to study it was new, and there are many ways a brain can work differently-so many they didn’t even have names for all the different ways! We are still are pretty new to understanding how many ways a brain can work, what that looks like, whether these different ways are one condition or many, and even understanding what is even considered ‘normal.’ We are also pretty new to having information spread worldwide in seconds, so everyone suddenly knowing this information seems like everyone is suddenly talking about neurodivergence.
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