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 🤔
Shit and here we thought it was vaccins that caused it, turns out its just cats assimilating us to serve them better.
I think it’s more “carnivore brain”
It’s certainly a theory… I’m autistic and have two cats and I always say that all cats are autistic and opportunistic!
I do agree that cats and autistic people have a lot in common - I have no proof but from my immediate circle it seems like we’re more likely to be cat people. I gotta disagree on sleeping a lot though bc I’ve had insomnia my whole life and I thought that it was common among autistics?
I think you’re anthropomorphising a bit too much
I think you don’t understand cats. They absolutely have very different traits. My husband works with people with disabilities and he has nicknamed our cats with the behavioral traits we show. My favorite cat is nicknamed ADHD. My oldest cat is Agoraphobia. Another one is Narcissist. With just those three, it can be proven that cats all have unique personalities just like we do.
They do have personalities which is why I think it’s wrong to cling to one and say we have cat brains. My old cat was a curmudgeon and so was my grandpa, must be cat brain
[Edit] I don’t mean to be dismissive, I was just trying to explain why I think it’s a stretch.
