"Words have meaning, and I very much doubt people with dyspraxia are known for enjoying a good tech panel. We're talking about autism here."
IDK your background or experience, but from what I've seen "neurodivergence" is almost exclusively used by folks to refer to ADHD and autism. You seem to be claiming that it refers specifically and exclusively to dyspraxia, but in terms of common parlance I believe you're just incorrect here. Ask around, I guess.
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term which encompasses many cognitive and neurological disorders, including but not limited to Autism and ADHD. The criticism is less about the limited usage of the term, and more referring to an explicit disability with a vague term in a context where the purpose of this facet of the character is already left up to interpretation (from my reading perspective, at least). Hope what I'm writing doesn't come as some kind of attack. I just think it's important to be mindful of how disability is written about, especially when the portrayal is nuanced.
I understand what its literal definition is, but I also know from experience that it is used constantly to refer to autism, ADHD, and the concept of hyperfixations etc, and I am writing narration that is in the voice of a human perspective that would likely adopt the cultural understanding of the term. Ignoring that context just feels like being unhelpfully obtuse, like interpreting "slay queen" as regicide.
I'm also not trying to fight or anything, but this is the first complaint about that line so far, and I kinda suspect, the last, is my point.
