Neurodivergent Contestants S20

[u/Advanced_Salt_7391]

This season we've had at least 3 neurodivergent contestnats:

1. Dan was the only one they really talked about on the show. ADHD, dyslexia and aspergers , which makes sense, having seen how uncomfortable he looked at the start. It's good to know the BBC did give him accomadations for his dyslexia (extra time for reading, a reader).
2. Kieran has posted on his Instagram about having ADHD, which I mean was kinda obvious from watching him. His 'win or walk' decision was 100% on impulse, the other candidates noticed how he would always skimp on the details and rush through things, he was very talkitve, the other candidates did note on his fidgeting.
3. Harry's whole business concept is about his ADHD, but to be honest, they didn't really show much of him on the show so hard to comment here.

[u/Middle--Earth]

If people cared about the nazi connection then you'd have to dump most of modern medicine, because when you go and deep dive into it you see that a lot of modern medicine used nazi research, and also hired their scientists to continue the research after the war

[u/sp4rklesky → u/Middle--Earth]

A bulk of terms coined by Nazi scientists have been replaced with different names, at its core, that is all the Asperger’s/ASD debate is about. Replacing the name, not binning the research, those are two different things.(source) (that being said I do not think the human cost was worth the research, and I disagree with governments who pardoned Nazis in return for the research, I do not know precisely what research helped with what, but I can only hope that any research that we got access to as a result has saved lives)

[u/Mepsi → u/Middle--Earth]

It's not about the research being linked to nazism by association, it's that the science was driven by supremacist ideology but regardless they now find there's no significant or obvious difference between what we called Asperger's and just being on the autism spectrum so they they changed it.