As a dopamine-seeking brain and as all of us dopamine-seeking people, there is a tremendous incentive and satisfaction in naming a thing because it feels solved. That’s right. The taxonomy is great. Not only giving yourself agency to call yourself something, but to be like. And now I’m done. There’s a kind of a gavel thwack in being like, “Oh, that’s an A.D.H.D. behavior. That’s an autistic behavior,” rather than “I am actively being challenged in this moment. I do not know if I have the resources to figure this out. I am so deeply, deeply isolated and uncomfortable,” rather than “I’m A.D.H.D.” Slap it on the bio. Other people are like, “Yay, us too.” It’s like a chorus of Minions. And then that is just like a different serotonin dopamine moment than just sitting with that horrible feeling of like, absolute ambiguity.
