Neurodivergent perspective &misunderstandings #neurodivergent #neurodiversityawareness #audhd #adhd

[00:00:00]Being nerd virgin is genuinely such a trip because it will have you like re-questioning your entire life and perspective because people are misinterpreting you and you didn't know why this entire time and then finally something clicked. I recognize that people dislike when people speak in absolutes and I now know why, but for a long time it was not clear to me. And I will tell you why. It's because I have a very different perspective and philosophy on life. When I was young, I genuinely believed that everything is just up to the interpret like interpreter. Like everything was just everyone's own beliefs and feelings. I really didn't understand why religion was such a big deal and all that stuff because I just felt like everything was very clear to the individual person and like I didn't understand all the dynamics behind it. I also grew up seeing ghosts like all the time. So, I remember my dad saying things like, "Oh, I really need to see it to believe it."

[00:00:55]But, I recognized like, "Oh, what if it's the opposite? What if it's you need to believe it in order to see it?" And ever since then that it's like been a big philosophy of mine, of course.

[00:01:06]It's a lot more nuanced than just that, but that is a big like experience and perspective because I have just been approaching life the way that every like knowing that everybody is kind of writing their own philosophy, their own feelings, their own ideas through their own narrative and perspective and nothing is super duper like absolute. Like I saw it as kind of an argumentative essay um where you don't have to say I believe this. It's like you were already arguing your point because everybody's walking around with their own internal belief system that is like very up to interpretation. I genuinely thought that like people were approaching life that way and they were just sharing sharing their thoughts, feelings, philosophies and not actually trying to convince other people to change their minds. Like I just didn't know that everybody was like so particular about facts and logic and a type of like rigidity. Like one answer is the only truth type of thing. Cuz the whole time I was like, oh, we all just choose what we believe and like that's that.

[00:02:09]Well, come to find out people actually expect that if you are speaking in absolutes, you mean that you are stating facts, not opinions. This was not clear to me.

[00:02:20]Um I thought that again, it was innate.

[00:02:22]It was obvious that everybody was speaking their own thoughts and opinions because that was just the context that I understood the world to exist in.