Thank you for your explanatory responses. I decided to look up an authoritative definition for myself. According to what I found, it isn’t a medical term and doesn’t have a medical definition, so means whatever people say it means. Which is I guess how language always works, it is just that it is a new word with roots that imply a broader meaning.

The lists generally exclude personality disorders, but this doesn’t seem logical to me, although I am not a neurologist. I thought all brain differences arise or manifest as differences in the brain structure.

https://www.umassp.edu/inclusive-by-design/who-before-how/understanding-disabilities/neurodivergence

https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2025/06/what-does-it-mean-to-be-neurodivergent

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neurodivergent

Are you making this up?

I’m going by the parts of the words: neuro meaning of the mind/brain and divergent meaning deviating from normal. I don’t see why “neurodivergent” wouldn’t include all of ADHD, autism, personality disorders, and mental illness as these are all brain differences.

They already had this in that don’t look up movie about xanax tech bros and asteroids

Wtf is neurodivergence if not a divergence from normal personality and thinking?