What is neurodivergent though? If it’s a third of people, you can probably deem that normal.

swiftcoder an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Current estimates place it around 20% of the population. Wouldn't take a whole lot of sampling error in admissions to result in 40% of admitted students

	▲	dragonwriter an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Stanford doesn't try to admit a random sample of the population, and its quite posssible the things it does select on positively correlate with the conditions at issue; it's quite plausible nonsampling error (systemic bias) is a bigger issue than sampling error in explaining any prevalence difference from the general population here.

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ok_dad an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a way to separate us so that we can fight about it and not focus on the important aspect which is to provide everyone the help they need and deserve to make a successful life for themselves. Some may need more help than others, and so the powers that be who want to keep all that profit for themselves target those who need more help with dumb articles like this one which spread FUD.

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guizadillas an hour ago | parent [-]

You almost lost me in the first half but yeah, that title alone shows the intentions of the editorial

	▲	ok_dad an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I should specify also that I am not saying a medical diagnosis is not important, or that there is no such thing as ADHD or Autism. I believe as a society we need to be more flexible in every area for every human and also to give individual attention to everyone so they can excel. Some people will need more help than others, like those with ADHD, and some will need much, much more help than others, such as those with more extreme sensory issues with Autism who may not even be able to go out in public without accommodations.

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Spivak 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think, broadly, this is what neurodivergent people want. Nobody considers having poor vision a disability despite it nominally being one since it's so well accommodated. And it's so well accommodated in part because it affects so many people that it's normal.

The world right now doesn't do a great job of "by default" accommodating people with the broad class of difficulties experienced by people that fall under the umbrella of neurodivergence and takes as given that everyone is in the 70-80% group. So now it's a disability with doctor's visits and paperwork and specific individual accommodations when it very well could not be.