No, it's not entirely. You're right. Experience is essentially subjective. Biology is a basis for what's abnormal, though, in a huge number of ways. Otherwise, medical science wouldn't have baselines and metrics to follow in diagnosis.
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Right, and now you've come to the problem: biological integrity is NOT what is meant by "neurodivergence." In psychiatry/psychology there's a replication crisis because of the lack of "neurotypicality," as we are all, subjects of a "divergent" (from nature) mode of living.
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If you're not talking about how the brain works in a way that isn't a normal functioning, then you're saying it somehow has nothing to do with medical science or biology. That doesn't make sense because it would mean it's not a physical condition when it is.
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Welcome to psychology, lol. Biology *cannot* explain behavioral phenomena, because as a species we are living in enormous, complex, fictitious social organizations; "neurodivergence" is an empty attempt to explain why some aren't "behaving right" in a particular social setting.
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You're basically saying that psychology discounts medical science and physical tangible reality. That doesn't sound right.
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Not what I'm saying! Psychology, or more specifically, psychoanalysis, is where subjectivity itself is the object of study. Subjectivity cannot be reduced to biology. It's the intersection of nature v nurture; neither are the sole cause of anything, subjectivity erupts from their collision.
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