aberrant behaviour is pathologised

• prevailing neurotypes are not pathologised despite being just as distinct as any other
• it is aberrant behaviour and ways of being that is punished under conformist societies
• so something pervasive in one culture may be ‘symptomatic’ in another
• so not everything that is considered a ‘disorder’ is inherently a ‘problem’ by any one definition
• those with genuinely disabling issues can go ‘under the radar’ as their surroundings and peers are (consciously or unconsciously) supportive of this one particular way of being — for better and for worse