what is the difference between neurodivergence and mental health disorders?
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Mental health disorders require extensive management in order to support a person going about life. Medication, therapy, even up to a limitation of freedoms.
Neurodivergence (when used as a simple label) only requires specific management in order to support a person going about life. Avoiding triggers, mental exercises, managing expectations, and perhaps some mental health treatments where it overlaps with mental health. But it’s essentially somebody that is different than how society expects them to be.
Mental health disorders are definitionally a problem; it’s why they are disorders instead of quirks. For example, being afraid of dying isn’t a clinically treated phobia, unless it causes a person to avoid living life. Meanwhile, neurodivergence is only a problem when society refuses to be flexible.
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