Hi, if you identify as on the spectrum, neurodiverse, ASD, ADHD - I would be curious if your family is multicultural, and if you or a relative has moved to a foreign country or lives in a foreign country. For example, I have grandparents on both parents side who moved abroad. I moved abroad myself as an adult, and have a sibling who has done so as well.
This seems to be a response to feeling alien in one’s own culture, therefore having less of an incentive of staying. And then it increases the alien-ness for the next generation. I wonder where are correlation and causation here. Maybe they just intertwine, like some neurofunky globetrotter’s dna.
My family has been unable to stay put for generations! My sister and I moved countries (in different directions), some aunts and uncles, some cousins, both sets of grandparents (individually and together) and even the generation before that as far as I’m aware… In my immediate family we all have ADHD. The rest of them I don’t know well enough to say.
Would love to see more data on this, but it resonates pretty strongly.