I saw this post on x-twitter that explains this phenomenon which I really relate to:
ADHD and other auditory processing challenged brains will have a delayed ability to process auditory inputs.
But the brain has a pretty nifty feature that stores up to 2 seconds of auditory information… it’s called the “phonological loop”
So, when a brain that struggles to process auditory info takes that info in… even though there’s a delay in processing what that info means… it stays accessible for a short time to be processed when the brain is ready.
Cool, no?
I actually kind of relate to a bunch of traits typically branded as neurodivergent, I just don’t have them necessarily as strongly or as frequently as I get the impression other people do.
Biased by my neuroscientist background, in that I think labels for neurological conditions are appallingly imprecise - I wonder whether it’s just on the spectrum of all human behaviours I have some that are close to but don’t push in to the disruptive territory. I don’t know.