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If number of undiagnosed neurodivergent people proves to be significant portion, neurotypical means just people who won the standards war of communication protocol (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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We never know the number of undiagnosed, many may be just capable of pretending but suffering.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, but only due to lack of technology. It’s just not economically feasible to be using fmri (I understand the distinction between structural and functional here), and not technologically feasible to be using neural mapping to characterize people.

But the term neurodivergent implies neurons, not behavior.

If we insist on keeping behavior as the definition and not just the indicator we use to detect the differences, we should start referring to these as philosophical or behavioral divergence, because we have no good reason to assume differences in behavior are only or even mostly a function of neurological differences.