Of course it's just like how being left-handed skyrocketed up until it plateaued following the end of its repression, but it still infuriates me how much effort people go to declare any acceptance for anything "a trend".

Oh, I agree. I subscribe to the idea (how based in reality it is, idk) that ND prevalence in the population will also plateau at some point and that these "disorders" are simply a consequence of the way society is structured. That they are a birthmark of a type of societal structure we as a species have developed out of. I mean, the DSM gives the game away with its definition of "mental disorder":

1. A behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual
2. Reflects an underlying psychobiological dysfunction
3. The consequences of which are clinically significant distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning)
4. Must not be merely an expected response to common stressors and losses (ex. the loss of a loved one) or a culturally sanctioned response to a particular event (ex. trance states in religious rituals)
5. Primarily a result of social deviance or conflicts with society

 
A good example of this is the existence of "Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders" which the DMS-5 describes as "a persistent or recurrent pattern of sleep disruption that is primarily due to an alteration of the circadian system or to a misalignment between the endogenous circadian rhythm and the sleep-wake schedule required by an individual’s physical environment or social or professional schedule." One could imagine a person who naturally sleeps from 3AM to 10AM would have a positive role and function in a primitive communal setting that leads to better outcomes for the community.

Rooted in all this discussion coming from people like RFK and those people he embodies as an avatar of opinion is this strict, rigid adherence to the capitalist mode of production, adherence to "bourgeois law," as Marx would call it. Our disorder is that our natural state of being conflicts with society. This idea only hardens my position as a communist. As neurodivergent people, our goal is the abolition of "bourgeois law," the abolition of "an equal amount of products for an equal amount of labor," and building towards the maxim "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

With an equal performance of labor, and hence an equal share in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, the right instead of being equal would have to be unequal.

A program can be built, and a socialist state can provide this "unequal" distribution to accommodate these "conflicts with society." A society built on equity as opposed to strict equality.

When you meet a neurodivergent person, you've met one neurodivergent person!

Oh, for sure. My siblings all have ADHD, I have a few cousins with ADHD (all adult diagnoses), I'm pretty sure it has a strong prevalence in my family. None of my aunts and uncles or my parents have been diagnosed with ADHD however. All you have to do is just observe them long enough to get the sense that they all fall somewhere on the ND spectrum.

100%. All my siblings are neurodiverse, but only the youngest 3 got diagnosed as children (4 if I wasn't pushed away from it!).

My 2 older siblings are near their 40s now (What's that in generational lingo, Millenial???) and both have almost identical traits or struggles but only recently even considered it!

My parents both have come to accept their own traits (OCD, autism, ADHD esp. in dad) but they've resigned themselves to never getting diagnosed because theyre in their 50s/60s now :/ So much shit they went through without anyone understanding at all.