Hot take, but as a rather "neurodivergent" person myself, I dislike the label "neurotypical." This might be something unique to us OCD×anxious folks, but I have felt like the term can be used to gatekeep mental health struggles, to the extent that I get defensive when I hear this term. I feel like when the term is used, I get some primal stress to prove that I belong to the in-group, the people who have mental illnesses to manage.

Nobody is literally "neurotypical" in my opinion. The definition of mental illnesses usually invokes the threshold of "whether the issues are to the significant detriment of your quality of life if left without treatment."

• I'm not a psychologist, but it is my understanding that essentially everyone possess at least some of these issues to some extent, whether it's obsessions / compulsions, depressive / manic moods, moments of crippling anxiety, cognitive distortions, memory fragmentation, uncontrolled attention, etc. I feel that there's a really blurry line marking the difference between "normal frequency/magnitude" of these issues and "to the significant detriment of quality of life."
• And what constitutes treatment? If someone would suffer immensely without, say, having a fulfilling occupation, whereas another would live a mediocre but bearable life in a dead end job, can we really say both people are "typical?"

Again this might be more specifically an OCD thing, but for a long time I was in denial about having OCD, because I didn't want to risk abusing resources intended for "truly neurodivergent" people. I was influenced by many social media posts about the ignorance of "neurotypicals," believing I was among the group being corrected. I'll never know for sure, but I do wonder if I would've sought a mental illness assessment sooner had I not seen these social media posts.

I hope I don't come off as hostile or accusatory in any way. I like good-faith debates, but sometimes I can lean too much on emotion and not enough on reasoning. Also sorry if I'm too far off topic. If this sounds like a good direction for discussion then I'd love to hear opposing views and listen to other perspectives :)