Am I neuro-diverse?

I was invited to complete a questionnaire yesterday. It was about employment and neurodiversity, and the barriers those who are different, experience in the workplace. I’ve never seen myself as neuro-diverse, but as I worked through the questions, I concluded that to others, maybe I was.

School did not work for me, and nor did being an employee. When free to follow my instinct and work for myself, which I did for more than 30 years, I was able to choose who I worked with and what I did. I became good at solving challenging problems, wrote a good few books to help those venturing along their own entrepreneurial journey, and always wondered why people seemed to find me so memorable.

It was only when I joined Mensa, and discovered that my IQ was higher than average (I scored 155) that the penny dropped. High IQ has been described as a ‘hidden learning disability’ and I’ve always viewed it more as a handicap that inhibits my ability to feel satisfied and content, that a neurodiverse condition.

Surely, we are all different in one way or another. Does a ‘diagnosis’ help?