I’ve started to notice for a while now that cats fit a lot of the neurodivergents traits like ASD and ADHD:
- Neophobe (they love routine and hate changes)
- Easily overstimulated
- Hate being told what to do
- Eat the same food everyday and be happy with it
- Can be lovely with close ones but very shy/anxious with strangers
- Very involved in stuff they like (playing), very lazy for stuff that doesn’t interest them
- Easily distracted
- Sleep a lot
- Can have shutdowns or meltdowns in stressful situations
Seeing all those patterns, I’m starting to think that maybe neurodivergent people’s brains have some structure which is closer to a feline brain, and that could explain some of these similar behaviors.
It’s really just some random thoughts, but it seems to match a lot and cats and humans are not that far away in the tree of evolution 🤔
Most behaviors in mammals can be seen in other mammals (and in even less related species). Don’t read too much into it.
I’m an introvert and easily overstimulated, so I like:
Is my brain part tree? (No, these are just qualities/behaviors easy to find in another living thing, and my brain is searching for a pattern.)
Interesting observation, but it’s a bit extreme and fantastical that some shared behaviors would suggest neurodivergent humans have an evolutionary link to cats.