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Most behaviors in mammals can be seen in other mammals (and in even less related species). Don't read too much into it.
I'm an introvert and easily overstimulated, so I like:
Is my brain part tree? (No, these are just qualities/behaviors easy to find in another living thing, and my brain is searching for a pattern.)
Interesting observation, but it's a bit extreme and fantastical that some shared behaviors would suggest neurodivergent humans have an evolutionary link to cats.
Haha good point (maybe I'm a plant tho...)
I'm always trying to explain human, and living beings behaviors based on evolution, and what environmental or social pressure made a species evolve the way it did.
That's why I'm "guessing" that that group of behaviors is probably older than when humans and cats branched out, and that maybe the human branch evolved with a different brain structure, but we still have some remnants of that.
I mean we do have the dive reflex which probably comes from when we were still ocean creatures.
That's fair, and same when it comes to trying to explain behaviors evolutionarily (though some are definitely just random, too, since if a characteristic doesn't actually directly cause an early death/fewer reproductive years, evolution will never affect it). Such guesses just get further from reality as they get more specific. So it would make sense and likely be accurate to say there is an evolutionary explanation for the behaviors that we demonstrate to divergent levels, but it becomes a bit more strained to say that that evolutionary explanation has to do with neurodivergent people being more closely connected to cats than neurotypical people.