It’s a term that’s being thrown around a lot and the definitions I hear seem to go from very broad to very specific.
To add to that, is epilepsy considered neurodivergent? Some sources say yes, some say no, and I’m quite confused.
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Neurodivergence is a broad, poorly defined term that has only come into common usage very recently. It does, however, serve an important purpose. IT basically refers to any difference in thinking/learning/processing information/mental function from what we would, on average, consider baseline.
his matters because the world we exist in is designed to cater to a mental profile that we, at some point, decided “Normal” people have. People who struggle to fit into that mold are different. Does your brain get overwhelmed in crowds? do you have trouble staying on task for 8 hours at work? do you have trouble learning from lectures? the list goes on and on. ND is a way to express this idea.
Of course, this leads to a question that, not long ago, would have been unthinkable. Are Neurodivergent people “Defective”, or did we actually design a world for a subset, and in fact this sort of mental diversity is Natural. For a lot of us, the latter seems more likely. It’s no secret that a HUGE percentage of the population has some Neurodivergence. ADHD. ASD. ADD. OCD. Dyslexia. Dyscalcula. Bipolar. Anxiety. The list goes on and on. More and more, it seems like maybe we got it backwards all along.
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