• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    Yes, but the “concentration” is just a very particular balance of neurodiversities.

    You’ve just enough of everything to be passionate, to look at things from a different perspective, dedicate your life to something etc, or simply to care about something enough to do something about it - but it’s not so bad that you struggle with day-to-day life. Alternatively, there are other people to support you with your day-to-day life.

    What class/nation/wealth/gender you were born into determines whether you’re “eccentric” or “mad”.

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      6 days ago

      I’m thinking more of an objective madness, not a socially defined madness.

      Specifically, a derangement of perspective and an absence of awareness of it.

      Like (to use an absurd example) if you pressed your face up to a beige wall, focusing intensely upon it.

      You might be convinced that the whole universe is beige, and all evidence would support you in this conclusion. But you would be wrong of course.