Add disease meaning1/16/2024 Many aspects of society are based on the assumption that there is one form of 'the human mind' and accordingly, many systems (education, employment, health and social services, social relationships) have been built up premised on being neurotypical. ![]() Some people believe that being generally intellectually gifted might be a form of neurodiversity, citing rare conditions like savant syndrome and hyperthymesia (highly superior autobiographical memory) as extreme examples of neurodiverse giftedness.An additional ~3% of the population are known to have generalised intellectual disability.It is thought that as research develops, certain mental health conditions such as psychopathy, some personality disorders and schizophrenic conditions will come to be re-interpreted as having been diagnosed both in people who experience symptoms due to poor mental health and people who are experiencing neurodiversity and require different approaches to care.~1% of people in the UK are thought to have Tourette's syndrome.~1% of people in the UK are thought to have an autistic spectrum condition.~6% of people in the UK are thought to have dyscalculia.~8% of people in the UK are thought to have dyspraxia.~10% of people in the UK are thought to have dyslexia.~8% of people in the UK are thought to have ADHD.Diagram created by Mary Colley & Joseph Aquilina It is thought that up to 15% of the population are thought to be neurodiverse. Learning about neurodiversity can help you move the focus from impairments towards everyone's different abilities. It can be compared to terms such as race, culture, class and gender and is useful to describe people with varying characteristics and behaviours of neurodevelopmental conditions alongside the “neurotypical” majority in a non-prejudiced way. Neurodiversity is a term that refers to the natural differences between people and was coined in the late 1990’s by Australian sociologist Judy Singer. ADHD may also co-occur with physical health conditions, such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS, also sometimes referred to under the umbrella of "hypermobility" although not all EDS patients are hypermobile), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, and coeliac disease. ADHD + bipolar), due to poor awareness it is also common for neurodevelopmental conditions to be misdiagnosed as mental illness. While it is common for neurodevelopmental conditions to occur with co-occurring mental health conditions, (eg. 2 in 3 people with ADHD have autistic spectrum traits, and people with ADHD are 8-fold more likely to meet full criteria for an autistic spectrum diagnosis. ![]()
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