As a neurodivergent person its fascinating and baffling to me that the base premises and assumptions behind police interrogation, and shit like micro expressions, basically any practice that claims to teach you how to detect lies, completely falls apart once neurodivergency enters the picture.

Lack of eye contact? completely normal if you’re on the spectrum. Same with exaggerated “put on” facial expressions (or lack of expression if you arent masking). Giving lots of unnecessary details? Autism and ADHD baby. Cant sit still? ADHD. Cant seem to remember extremely basic info, or conversely remembering “too much”? ADHD and Autism.

Like it’s honestly pretty horrifying, since these misunderstandings about how our brains work could literally be used as evidence of us committing a crime.