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@isagalaev @meredithw The Venn diagram of “creative people” and “neurosparkly people” is basically a circle.

@LauraLangdon @meredithw I understand it's a spectrum, but the way you put it means all creative people are technically supposed to be treated for this "disorder", which is not the view I'd endorse!

@isagalaev @meredithw That’s only if you consider it a “disorder”, and I don’t. Just a different wiring schema.

@LauraLangdon @meredithw I don't either. Granted, I don't know what you meant by "neurosparkly", but we were talking about ADHD, and the last D is meaningful. So to clarify, I can't subscribe to thinking of all creative people as having ADHD. And looks like we're in agreement on that?

@isagalaev @meredithw A rapidly growing proportion of those of us diagnosed with ADHD and/or ASD reject the ‘D’ entirely! Unfortunately an alternative word for a person diagnosed with ADHD hasn’t been mainstreamed yet, the way a person can refer to themselves as “autistic” instead of “having ASD”.

@LauraLangdon @meredithw "chaotic genius"? :-)