The issue IMO is we don't have a non medical but accurate word for "some flavour of neurodivergence". The author tries to come up the "weird nerd" terminology,

The issue IMO is we don't have a non medical but accurate word for "some flavour of neurodivergence". The author tries to come up the "weird nerd" terminology, but it doesn't feel better to me. Extending the medical term to non problematic behaviours feels like a better tradeoff to me. We already do that in spades: people can have myopism to varying degrees, and we don't avoid putting them somewhere on the scale until they need coke bottle glasses.