I just read an eval for someone who has now been “diagnosed” ADHD.
Truth is… the report has a couple of pages of “measures.” Some measures show really high, like you’d see if someone was “really strong” on the spectrum for that aspect. Other show really low… like explaining why they process the world differently than someone else.
Diagnoses help at times when it can open the door to accommodations and special kinds of support. They can also help us to accept ourselves, as in “Oh! That explains why I process life differently than those around me growing up!”
I’m certainly “way out there” on certain spectrums. And I have significant gaps, too. And yeah, Highly Sensitive People tend to have that activated/over-activated in order to “cope” around a world that tends to be designed for more the neurotypical.