@RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Post #2984388
2026-05-14 13:56 UTC
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@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 17:47
upper middle class professionals are the class by which everything else is measured, yes. conformity with their expectations and behaviors are considered 'success' and anything less than or different is 'failure'. But autism rates are higher among the middle and upper middle class... because they have the resources to diagnose and treat the difference. as a working-class person, i never ever heard of anything about autism or adhd or mental illness until I got to college in my working-class rural town, none of these ideas existed in day to day life or conversation. nobody had depression, anxiety, or any of that. and the freshman year college, all the sudden these terms became daily parts of my vocabulary. i never even really saw them on the internet for most of the 90s and 2000s.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-05-14 14:27
No. It's just that the brain has lot's of fallback and adaption mechanisms, with the focus on keeping things on a survivable level of *somewhat working*. Which is why different issues can show a similiar picture, as long as they affect the same neurochemicals. Neurodiverse brains are literally "tuned" differently.
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@arrow74@lemmy.zip 2026-05-14 16:04
If we want to take a biological or evolutionary viewpoint it gets rather interesting. Autism would be fine and even beneficial, but in it's most severe forms it would be very detrimental to survival and the passage of genes. However, we will never know how that presented in the past. Our modern environment almost certainly influences the presentation and manifestation of what we classify as "mental illness". I would say any behavior, at least from a biological standpoint, that does not impact an individual's ability to survive and reproduce would be "neurotypical". Of course human culture and socities make this very very difficult to interpret. Especially considering that our ability to survive in the modern day ia directly related to our ability to do labor. Labor that is well outside of the behaviors we evolved for.