a burden of proof

Regardless where you fall on any given spectrum, it’s only ever a reasonably practical analysis. If you’re diagnosed as a neurodivergent, it’s only in which you exhibit signs of such in relation to some other signs of normalcy. I realize that seems and sounds obvious, but the self that portrays behaviors is the interplay of the entirety of reality, all inclusive. There is no requirement to prove it.

A personal reality simply doesn’t exist independently of anything. I know this sounds brutally impossible to anyone that isn’t suffering some sort of psychosis, but personal cause and event vectors are an experience entwined as a casual shared reality, fed to you, personally. Yet, there is no truly independent anything, including the passing of such events into new ones.

We generally understand that if we consume poison, get burned by fire, suffer head trauma, etc. that those events are, in fact, personal events, that only a handful of others experience (at any given moment). However, such experiences have never occurred independently at all. There is a disillusion (read: gradient) of events that cascade across all events as an experience, even including the event of memory stored as a fragment and recalled.