Is neurodiversity contagious?
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Look around you.
When I was diagnosed with Autism (shout out to Autism NZ), they suggested I might have ADHD too.
An ADHD friend agreed with them.
One of my siblings had been diagnosed with ADHD as a child, surely mine would have been caught then?
Nope.
ADHD is something noisy boys tend to have, not quiet people pleasing girls.
What? How did we miss this?
Luckily, the route to diagnosis is easier now than it was for me a few years back. I worked with a psychiatrist, but these days it may be possible to access through a GP.
Looking around me, I discovered only one of my friends didn’t have ADHD.
They’d always had ADHD. I’d always had ADHD. But now we could see it.