Little Rant: What do You See? Are You "Oversensitive"?

(This has a point but it is a rant. You have been warned 🍵)

      So-called "oversensitive" neurodivergent people are unnecessarily complicated to you the way more people are unnecessarily complicated to people who are colorblind.

       Colorblind people don't usually complain about people who aren't colourblind though, accuse them of bad motives or not trying hard enough to be simple. Most colourblind people don't feel entitled to people who see colour constantly yielding to them seeing less in areas of preference, and they generally maintain this even though the rest of us don't normally yield in all the important ways we should for them. Like essential safety features being designed based on colour recognition.

       The rest of us also don't typically accuse colourblind people of just not trying hard enough to see colour when it's important.

       The difference here is in one case the complicated is the majority in a world built to cater to the people who experience more of a certain thing, and in the other we are the minority in a world catered to experience less of a certain thing.

       We all must yield to others' preferences, and both out of love and out of practicality. We should all do this sometimes. But the reality is many neurodivergent people epend every moment of our lives where we aren't alone giving something of ourselves yielding to the arbitrary preferences of others because our arbitrary preference is not what everyone else is used to.

       And other times, neurodivergent people sense more of one thing but less of another. So we end up being accused of being too complicated and too simple all at the same time.

       Most of us try to understand that people only see what we see and not get mad every time someone doesn't understand us. But when we are genuinely past our limit and people complain and accuse us of a bad attitude or just not trying hard enough... It is incredibly frustrating.

        Colorblind people will have fewer particularities about colours than people who see more colour. Sure there are benefits and I will say also beauties to visual simplicity. But that doesn't mean colours are ugly, it doesnt mean they don't have values, and it definitely doesn't mean that people who see more of them are just being difficult to meet the coluurblind people because their favourite colour is something that isn't yellow, green, or brown.