The #Neurodivergent World: The People Running Everything Are Mad (Part 1 of 3).
Why #Trump, #Putin, and Every UK Politician Are Neurodivergent Sociopaths (And Why My ADHD Brain At 3AM Explains Everything).
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How the most dangerous neurodivergent traits get called “leadership” whilst yours get you medicated - my takedown of power, politics, and the royal family.
If you met me on the street, you’d think something was wrong with me. We’d pass with no more than, perhaps, a warm smile, and you’d walk away wondering what my problem is.
But here’s the thing - it’s 3 AM, I’m sat in front of this keyboard, and suddenly I’m Hemingway on cocaine. I sit down to write 500 words, and four hours later, I’ve written an entire bloody chapter. Face-to-face? I’m a mute. Screen-to-screen? I’m a motormouth.
When I AM in conversation, my eyes are busy scanning the world - grabbing ideas, constructing sentences, filing away material. I’ve already got a paragraph forming whilst you’re still talking. My mind is this two-sided whatever-it-happens-to-be.
One side of my brain says, “Go to sleep.” The other side - the one that just came back from a Royal Marines 30-mile yomp across Dartmoor - says “now we write.”
This is how I live.
And here’s what it tells you about EVERYONE:
We’re ALL neurodivergent. We always have been.
The Romans had it. The Egyptians had it. For millennia, we called it “madness,” “genius,” “sin,” “prophecy.”
Now we finally have a label: neurodivergent.
But we’re still doing the same thing:
→ Trump’s validation addiction = “leadership”
→ Putin’s control obsession = “strength” → Starmer’s paralysing anxiety = “careful governance” → Your ADHD = “disorder”
Same brain. Different circumstances.
Some get called leaders and given nuclear codes. Some get a 2-year NHS waiting list and are told to try mindfulness.
Everyone’s Neurodivergent.
Now let me tell you something about neurodivergency that nobody wants to admit: and, I’ll say it again, and again, we’re all neurodivergent. Every single one of us. The whole bloody world.
It’s just that some of us got the version that fits neatly into society’s little boxes, and the rest of us got the version that makes people uncomfortable at dinner parties. You think there’s some “normal” out there? There isn’t. There’s just different flavours of weird, and some flavours happen to be more socially acceptable than others.
My brain tends to do this keyboard thing at 3 AM. Your brain does something else. Bob down the street can’t function without his morning routine being exactly the same every day. Karen in accounting needs everything colour-coded, or she has a meltdown. It’s all neurodivergent. It just manifests differently.
The difference between someone with diagnosed ADHD and someone who’s “just a bit scatty”? Usually, a postcode and a GP who’ll actually listen. The difference between autism and “social awkwardness”? Often, it's just whether your parents could afford the assessment. We’re all operating with different brain wiring, different cognitive processes, different ways of experiencing the world. Some of us just got the luxury of having our differences called “quirks” instead of “disorders.”
The Worst Examples: World Leaders.
And you want to know who the worst examples are? The absolute worst specimens of neurodivergent behaviour gone wrong? World leaders. Politicians. The people running entire countries.
Think about it - what kind of brain do you need to have to want that job? You have to be so pathologically obsessed with power, so completely divorced from normal human empathy, so utterly convinced of your own importance that you think you should be making decisions for millions of people. That’s not normal leadership. That’s a specific type of brain malfunction, and we keep putting these people in charge.
They’re neurodivergent in the most dangerous way possible - they lack the ability to see other human beings as anything other than numbers on a spreadsheet or votes in a ballot box. But because they’re good at lying and shaking hands and remembering names, we call them “leaders” instead of what they really are: people whose brains are wired for manipulation and control.
At least my neurodivergency just makes me write blog posts at 3 AM. Theirs starts wars.
The Global Rogues Gallery.
Let me give you some examples of neurodivergent world leaders, okay?
Donald Trump - there’s a man whose brain is so wired for constant validation and attention that he can’t go five minutes without telling everyone how great he is. That’s not confidence, that’s a neurological need for external approval that would have most people in therapy. But because he’s loud and rich, they made him president. Twice. The man posts on social media like someone’s holding his dopamine receptors hostage. That’s textbook neurodivergent behaviour, just pointed in the direction of nuclear codes.
Or how about Boris Johnson? There’s a bloke whose brain is so desperate to be liked, to be the entertaining centre of attention, that he turned governing into a bloody pantomime. The dishevelled hair, the bumbling act - that’s not charm, that’s a coping mechanism. His brain can’t process being the boring, responsible adult, so it manufactures this persona instead.
Putin? That’s a brain so fixated on control and order that it sees any deviation as a personal threat. The rigid thinking, the need for absolute authority, the inability to tolerate opposition - if he weren’t running Russia, we’d recognise that for what it is: a mind that can’t handle uncertainty or chaos, so it tries to eliminate both by force.
Xi Jinping - same thing, different flavour. A brain so consumed with maintaining systems and hierarchies that individual human suffering doesn’t even register as relevant data.
These aren’t “strong leaders.” These are people whose particular brand of neurodivergency makes them dangerous when given power. We just don’t call it that because we’re too busy pretending there’s such a thing as a “normal” politician.
Britain’s Finest.
And don’t think we’re any better here on British soil. British politics is a masterclass in neurodivergent dysfunction.
Keir Starmer - there’s a man whose brain is so terrified of making the wrong move that he’s paralysed into making no moves at all. That’s not careful leadership, that’s anxiety dressed up in a suit. His brain processes every decision through seventeen layers of “but what will people think?” until any original thought has been focus-grouped into oblivion. He’s neurodivergent in the most British way possible - conflict avoidance turned into a governing strategy.
Rishi Sunak before him? A brain so wired for spreadsheets and data that actual human beings barely registered. You could see it in his eyes when he tried to relate to normal people - the processing delay, the slight confusion, like he was trying to communicate with a species he’d only read about. That’s not being out of touch; that’s having a brain that genuinely doesn’t compute emotional data the same way.
Nigel Farage? Oh, that’s a beautiful specimen. A brain so addicted to being the contrarian, the disruptor, that it doesn’t matter what he’s disrupting or why. It’s the opposition itself that feeds him. That’s not a principle, that’s a neurological compulsion to be against whatever’s in front of him.
The pattern repeats across every political party, every government, every administration. We keep electing people whose neurodivergent traits make them brilliant at campaigning and terrible at governing. Their brains are wired for performance, for manipulation, for short-term thinking and long-term avoidance. And we wonder why nothing ever changes.
The Royal Family: Neurodivergency in a Crown.
And then there’s the royals. Christ, where do we start? The British royal family is what happens when you take neurodivergent traits and trap them in an institution designed to suppress everything human.
King Charles has spent his entire life talking to plants and rearranging architecture because his brain can’t cope with the lack of actual purpose in his existence. That’s not eccentricity, that’s what happens when a neurodivergent mind is trapped in a job that literally consists of existing and waving. His obsessive focus on organic farming, traditional architecture, and environmental causes isn’t just passion - it’s a brain desperately seeking meaning in a meaningless role.
William and Kate? They’re so rigidly controlled, so desperate to maintain the perfect image, that you can practically see the anxiety humming beneath the surface. Those aren’t normal brains operating normally - those are minds under constant, crushing pressure to be something they’re not, and it shows in every rehearsed smile and calculated appearance. Every public engagement is a performance by people whose neurodivergent traits include an overwhelming need for approval and fear of failure.
Harry had the sense to recognise his brain couldn’t handle it and got out. That’s probably the most neurotypical response of the lot - “this situation is mad, I’m leaving.” But we called him the problem. We said he was troubled, difficult, ungrateful. When, actually, he was the only one honest enough to say, “My mental health can’t survive this system.”
The whole institution is designed to take whatever neurodivergent traits these people have and amplify them into a grotesque performance of “normalcy” that nobody actually believes. They’re all struggling with their own brands of different, but because they’re royal, we call it “tradition” instead of what it actually is: generational trauma and neurological coping mechanisms wrapped in ermine and a crown.
The Queen spent 70 years perfecting the art of emotional suppression - a coping mechanism so effective that people mistook it for strength. That’s not mental health, that’s a lifetime of masking neurodivergent traits because “duty” demanded it. And now we’re watching the next generation either follow the same pattern or break under the weight of it.
The Pattern.
Here’s what you need to understand: the people at the top - the world leaders, the politicians, the royals - aren’t there despite their neurodivergency. They’re there because of it. Their particular brand of brain difference makes them perfect for the roles we’ve created.
They’re obsessive enough to want power. Disconnected enough to wield it without empathy. Narcissistic enough to believe they deserve it. Anxious enough to constantly perform. Rigid enough to maintain outdated systems. And we’ve built entire political structures around these traits, then acted surprised when the results are catastrophic.
We’re not governed by the best of us. We’re governed by the most neurodivergent - and not in the good ways. Not the creative, innovative, empathetic neurodivergence. The controlling, manipulative, power-hungry neurodivergence.
What’s Coming in Part 2: The Institutions Designed to Control You.
So that’s the people problem. The individuals whose neurodivergent brains have led them to positions of power are fundamentally unequipped to handle responsibility. But if you think the politicians and royals are bad, wait until you see the systems they’ve built.
Part 2 covers:
The Legal System: Neurodivergency in Wigs - Why judges in horsehair wigs and barristers arguing technicalities represent a specific type of obsessive brain dysfunction that we’ve institutionalised into law.
The Voting System: Collective Neurodivergency - How first-past-the-post and the House of Lords prove we’re collectively neurodivergent as a nation, accepting systems that mathematically guarantee most votes don’t matter.
The Mental Health System: Fixing People, Ignoring the Problem - Why the NHS is trying to medicate you into functioning in a society run by bankers and billionaires whose neurodivergent greed crashed the economy.
Religion: Nuclear-Level Neurodivergency - How Christianity and every other religion exploits our neurological need for meaning, certainty, and control to build empires that last millennia.
Because here’s the thing: bad people in charge is one problem. But bad systems run by bad people? That’s how you get the world we’re living in now.
Read Part 2: “The Neurodivergent World: The Institutions Designed to Control You”
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William and Kate should read this.
Just watching "The Crown" and you are spot on about the Royal Family (especially Lizzie).