I’m not sure if is just me but it trully does seem that the prevalence of neurodiversity in places like this is way higher than in the average population.
I’m not sure if is just me but it trully does seem that the prevalence of neurodiversity in places like this is way higher than in the average population.
Hmmm… An interesting question. I have a few thoughts.
Firstly, the fediverse generally leans towards an open accepting atmosphere, where people are more open about this sort of thing (hell, I recently put a pretentious nd symbol in my mastodon name recently). Could be that people just talk about it more here and it’s confirmation bias.
Secondly, I’ve heard heard that autistic people tend to have a strong feeling of social justice and are more willing to break social norms for what’s “right”. Considering that most companies now don’t really act ethically or in the interests of their customers, it makes sense that autistic people would look elsewhere.
Looking at Reddit specifically, I and many other people want to be able to access the site in any way we choose. Reddit have basically said that they don’t care about that, nor about accessibility. They just want to shove ads down our throats and sell our data to AI companies.
It’s honestly quite frustrating how many people seem to lie down and take it, or decide that the solution is to go to worse walled gardens like Discord.