Out of sync ?

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The original post question is meaningless.

"Neurodiverse" means "neuro" "diverse".

If you are that then you "diverge" from the norm. its doesn't mean that you converge onto some second thing that is a single alternative to "neurotypical". It just means that you diverge from the norm. So expecting to conform to neurodivergent is to expect to unite with a group of people who have no unity to unite each other with in the first place (other than the unity of not being typical). Neurodiverse folks by definition diverge in different directions from the norm, so by definition they diverge from each other as well (indeed diverge from each other even more than NT differ from other ND folks- just like the tips of tree branches on opposite sides of the same tree are farther apart from each other than either are from the tree's central trunk). Nts are the tree trunk, and the neurodiverse are the tips of the branches.

When I was young, I knew I'm a bit out of sync. I didn't like it back then, so I tried to go ahead as much as possible.
At my teens, I was rather devastated by it because I didn't get it. I didn't see it. I didn't understand. I never knew I'm seriously off the sync until then. I couldn't get ahead. I have no means.

Eventually, I accepted it. Embraced it. I had even taken it for granted. Then, I understood it.
Nonetheless, I accept it that way. And I have a choice whether to go ahead of others or chase that sync to match it or leave it, with the means to or not.



Offtopic: Reminds me of what Filipinos are somewhat. With different ways, different languages, even different isle/island, then forced to speak with one language and define themselves with one name of a nation when in reality, they are just a bunch of tribes united by their foreign conquerors centuries ago.
Then at this present, there's this mass cultural confusion...
But ah, it'll take way too long to explain. I'll just stop right here.

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Now that I have learned to do more for myself and I have a wider circle of friends, I don't feel that much different from others. I do feel bad sometimes knowing that others achieved the same things years ago and I will be far behind all my life. I have reached a plateau in my development and probably will never catch up. I didn't get a driver's license until I was 48 years old. That put me way behind in everything all my life. At a time when I should have been out there in the world, I was engaged in some stupid obsession or another. I don't regret the knowledge I gained from studying, but I do regret not having applied any of it.