This past weekend, an article I ran into referenced obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in the category of neurodiversity. That surprised me.
I’m a mental health clinician. As I’ve historically understood it, the diagnoses of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD), and certain sensory and learning disorders constitute the neurodiverse category. I thought that the words “neurodiverse” and “neurodiversity” meant the brain’s functioning or information processing was “different” than what’s considered to be “typical.” How did I miss OCD when it’s a diagnosis I know a lot about?
Down the rabbit hole of information-seeking I went. (Click for full article)
