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[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds plausible. My understanding of one of the key differences between autists and allists is that the autistic brain processes info from the ground up, which is to say that all the details are collected and the interpretation of the data is done by considering the sum of those details. A non-neurodivergent brain pre-summarizes and you get the gist of the data without seeing all the details. This is what makes autistic folks so good at processing large amounts of detail, and so bad/slow at interpretation of social situations.

From what I've read, understanding of ADHD is trending towards being seen as similar to autism as it largely boils down to very similar information processing differences.