Reply To: Vultology and neurodiversity

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I do not believe that Vultology should attempt to incorporate neurodivergency. If truly desired, a different model should be built, although realistically it will be easier to gather information from journals regarding the specific neurodivergency and use those concepts to approximate the individual. The difference is too large to bridge, it will simply harm the integrity and validity of the model for neurotypical people, of which it works consistently, whilst not achieving the goal of being accurate for neurodivergent people anyway.

There are larger variations between neurodivergent people, where there may be insufficient overlap to create a wholistic model. There are differences in neurotypicals, but you can still find the underlying pattern, so there are also stable commonalities. This is not a priori true for neurodivergent people.

I am diagnosed with High-Functioning Autism (Asperger) and will be getting evaluated for ADHD in the near future.