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 🤔

  • JavaTea@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    It’s certainly a theory… I’m autistic and have two cats and I always say that all cats are autistic and opportunistic!