Sasha Hamdani
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And I've been guilty of that, where people have said that, and I'm like, you don't know what it's like.
You can't possibly know like I do.
At the end of the day, I have no way of knowing that.
I have no way of knowing what's going on in their brain.
What they're feeling.
Yeah, you don't know.
What their dysfunction is.
I don't know.
So I've tried to peel that back and figure out and look at why is this bothering me so much?
But using self-diagnosis as a tool to get steps to get a formal diagnosis or get more access to knowledge about things and research about things so you can learn about your internal environment.
I think that there is a huge space for lived experience and talking about that.
There's zero people.
And I think the neurodivergent terminology, it was like a psychological term that came out in the 90s.
And it was really this umbrella term to talk about autism and ADHD and all of these other things.
And the neurotypical was just kind of like a byproduct.
What's the opposite of this?
Yeah, DSM has problems.
This is a weird area of medicine because it's not this cut and dried mechanism.
So basically where a majority of that deficit happens is that frontal lobe.
So directly underneath your forehead, that's where all that executive function judgment processing happens.