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Anyone notice that a large chunk of their friends are ADHD or otherwise neurodiverse? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My childhood best friend is ADHD, all but 1 of my other childhood friends is ADHD and about half of my current friends that I hang out with are either ADHD, on the autism spectrum or likely to be but as yet undiagnosed.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, have you met many neurotypical people? It might be a confirmation bias caused by social sorting. I’m ‘quirky’ and I expect nothing less from the people I choose to hang with. It just turns out the quirks I gravitate toward are correlated with neurodiversity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Aside from myself, there is only one other person in my family that has been formally diagnosed as being neurodivergent (autism). I was diagnosed when I was 32. So I found it interesting that even decades before that, I happened to tend to be closer to people that were formally diagnosed with ADHD. The vast majority of my classmates, coworkers and students that I have tutored were very likely neurotypical. But this wasnt true of most of the people I chose to be around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm feeling scared because I'm worried I blacked out, made a new account and posted this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how, but half of my students (I tutor online) are neurodivergent too, which suits me just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well the school system isn't very supportive of neurodivergent students so it isn't THAT surprising.