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Have you considered the fact that you may be neurodivergent? Your assumption that you’ve never met a neurodivergent co-worker is surprising.

From what I understand, some autistic people assume everyone has the same worldview and agenda as they do, they lack a theory of mind. I’m not making this accusation about you, I’m bringing it up because I find it surprising that everyone you’ve worked with is neurotypical.

I can usually tell if someone is neurodivergent or not within the first minute of meeting them, usually just from eye contact and body language.

>>quickt+(OP)
> Have you considered the fact that you may be neurodivergent?

I scrolled through some of their Reddit comment history (it's linked on their profile) and I think I would peg them as probably autistic. Their patterns of emphasis, placements of sentence breaks, certain turns of phrases and pattern of emotional expression seem to closely match a few autistic friends I have & a few autistic coworkers. Research on this hasn't fully developed though so I can't really offer references (other than the preprint that inspired me, https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/untangling-biologica...)... I still don't really have a non-ambiguous way to call the different types.

>>LoganD+le
> it just became popular to label others

Feel like my theory of mind is just fine given its predictive power.

>>quickt+(OP)
> I’m bringing it up because I find it surprising that everyone you’ve worked with is neurotypical.

So there are two potential explanations there. The one where I don't see neurodivergence where it does exist and the other one where you do see it where it does not. Would you be OK with 50/50 probability each of these options being right as the baseline assumption?

>>lostms+lO
I feel like all you predicted was the natural antithesis of the argument you made, and not actually some universal truth. Your "predictive power" is just common sense. You say people aren't neurodivergent, and your argument is then "see, you're saying people are neurodivergent again. I win."

>>lostms+DP
Yeah, I’d be fine with assuming either one of us could be correct as a baseline. I hesitated when posting this at first because it’s hard to ask that question without sounding like an asshole, I appreciate the measured response as I was not trying to be aggressive.

Like you said, my perception of neurodivergence in others could be entirely incorrect, I have no way of knowing.