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Experience Is Not a Headcount

What Clinical Experience Can and Cannot Tell Us About How Common Neurodivergence Is

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Oct 05, 2026
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Abstract

A confident number can travel a long way on the strength of the person who says it. This paper examines one such number, the claim that roughly half of all adults are neurodivergent, and asks a general question it raises: when does experience count as evidence for a number? The argument is that clinical experience is a legitimate and often valua…

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