Post #73415
2025-12-17 12:35 UTC
I decided to just look it up for myself. According to what I found, it isn’t a medical term and doesn’t have a medical definition, so means whatever people say it means. Which is I guess how language always works, it is just that it is a new word with roots that imply a broader meaning.
The lists generally exclude personality disorders, but this doesn’t seem logical to me, although I am not a neurologist. I thought all brain differences arise or manifest as differences in the brain structure.
uhhospitals.org/…/what-does-it-mean-to-be-neurodi…
www.merriam-webster.com/…/neurodivergent
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@stoly@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 16:17
I’m happy to hear that you looked up some of this for yourself. I figured that it was the definitions that were catching you more than the concepts. The DSM has some very odd references in it. For instance, “retarded” is a technical definition that exists and is a possible diagnosis even though society has long moved passed that concept. Mental health is weird.