I’m not sure if is just me but it trully does seem that the prevalence of neurodiversity in places like this is way higher than in the average population.
I’m not sure if is just me but it trully does seem that the prevalence of neurodiversity in places like this is way higher than in the average population.
I think there are a ton of comorbidities in this area that I don’t fully understand. When you go into techy/hacker/FLOSS spaces you start seeing a lot of LGBTQ+/neurodivergent/furry/left-leaning/etc people. Many people will even be all of those at once. I have no idea why and most of my experience is starting from the furry angle where 80%+ of furries are LGBTQ+, neurodivergence is much higher than average, computer fluency is almost a given, and leaning left is often a matter of survival.
If someone knows why I’m dying to know. My best guess is that some of those attributes have small portions that link hard to other attributes, and it all comes along like a chain.
I suggest it’s a bit of an echo chamber (not derogatory). There are other places where you can observe similar behaviors that aren’t online. I’ve said this elsewhere, but gym cultures have calorie counting, in group language, and other norms that aren’t mainstream. I have a theory there’s some undiagnosed folks on the spectrum in gyms.
My best bet is that the politically-left encourages a mindset, that revolves around openness (in the sense of communism), creativity (queerness) and a great ability to think in equilibriums and equations (and Zen-Buddhism), rather than progress and advances. That leads to natural tendencies like math (I see a lot of queer people also study math) and FOSS rather than money-making enterprise.
I’m not a furry so i’m talking from an outside perspective. I think furries are people, who aren’t accepted in the society, so they start attending furry things to be more accepted.