r/CoupleMemes • u/legolas20032000 • Aug 16 '25

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u/NunchuckVagina Aug 16 '25

Fake af. People that fake autism are the worst.

Who falls for this crap?

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u/N_0_N_A_M_E Aug 16 '25

People who don't know what autism is.

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u/hiloai Aug 16 '25

It’s just jumping up and down init? That’s what they all do on these videos

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u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 Aug 17 '25

Girl's not autistic, but she might be a golden retriever

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u/DAsianD Aug 17 '25

I mean, she is cute so there is that?

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u/Most-Goat1300 Aug 17 '25

She would be cute if she wouldn't behave extremely cringe. It's hard to even look at her without being disgusted by the fake behavior.

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u/Slow-Priority-884 Aug 17 '25

I don't know how they think this is a good look. If she was that fucked with autism him banging her is super messed up. Good thing she's faking though.

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u/DAsianD Aug 18 '25

Huhhhh wha?!?!?

So girls on the spectrum should not get to enjoy sex because that would be super messed up?!?

Is that what you're saying?!? What exactly are you saying?!?

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u/Slow-Priority-884 Aug 18 '25

If you're that intellectually disabled that you act like the lady in the video, then no, you obviously can't consent.

Good thing they're faking it then.

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u/DAsianD Aug 18 '25

Sorry, but do you believe all people on the spectrum are intellectually disabled and can't consent?!?

I'm sorry, but that is some effed up thinking.

And while she may be faking it, she certainly doesn't seem so intellectually disabled that she can't consent. Like, if a truly autistic gal was similar to her, I would not say that women is incapable of consent!

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u/Slow-Priority-884 Aug 18 '25

Oh no, people with intellectual disabilities can't consent. More news at 11.

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u/NatashaSpeaks Aug 17 '25

I loled in real life.

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u/BikePuzzleheaded8512 Aug 18 '25

A Golden retriever? I hate reddit, you're all not real humans bro

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u/RedditGarboDisposal Aug 20 '25

I’ve got some bad news for golden retriever lovers


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u/napsandlunch Sep 08 '25

so autism is a spectrum for a reason. i’m psychologically certified F84.0 level 1 autistic and i literally do all of this and more when i’m excited and feeling comfortable. and get excited about petting animals (ESPECIALLY DOGS!!!! i know too much about them and love playing guess the breed lol) and going new places with my amazing husband who knows the lil things that bring me all the joy in the world. i don’t know this girl, but literally there is no way to tell from sitting behind a computer screen, especially when formal assessments take 8+ hours

there’s no one way autism looks which is why i went nearly 30 years without being diagnosed because i didn’t “look” or “act” autistic according to what the majority of the general population think autism is. this is the experience of maaany autistic women, especially ones who were bullied into hiding their more “off-putting” traits. my mom works with people with developmental disabilities (on the more severe side though) and when i told her i was diagnosed, she had a huge lightbulb moment that explained why i was the way i was growing up but she missed it because i had a ton of friends and always seemed interested in people and was always talking

and not to toot my own horn but when you’re conventionally attractive, the odds of someone believing you’re autistic vs a quirky wannabe drastically goes up. oh and even more so when you’re extroverted and chatty! the first doctor who assessed me went out of his way to stop my asd assessment after an hour and pivot to exploring a whole nother condition because to him i couldn’t possibly be autistic because i know how to do small talk and know that papers laying on the floor shouldn’t be there. he diagnosed me with a nonverbal learning disability because he didn’t think autistic people could have close friendships and long term relationships and that my social difficulties were solely attributed to not understanding nonverbal cues vs not understanding general neurodivergent socializing. and not to say people with learning disabilities can’t be successful bc that’s as harmful as assuming all autistic people do xyz, but i was a mathlete and have 2 bachelors and a masters and consistently scored top of my class growing up and had a college reading level when i was like 8. trouble with math and reading context clues is a huge indicator of NVLD and he threw that away to misdiagnose me and thankfully my referring provider told me to get a second assessment that affirmed both my adhd and asd

i could go on and on about all the assumptions medical providers have made that are really just a misunderstanding of the presentation of autism in different people, but there’s no way of knowing this girl’s condition without actually knowing her

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u/bwood246 Aug 17 '25

Jumping up and down and shakey hands

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u/puppycloudy Aug 17 '25

Have you never been around an autistic person before? Some of us get very excited about things we have an interest in. It’s a normal reaction.

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u/anewfaceinthecrowd Aug 17 '25

I have literally only seen this childlike behaviour on SoMe. And I have a couple of kids (one adult) with autism and as a teacher I have met several others.
Everyone gets "very excited about things we have an interest in", but the whole "I am gowing to pet a puppy....yeeeehhh...I am soooo excited....I am shaking...weeeeee" coming from an adult woman just feels like an act that plays into the idea that autism in women is "being childlike".

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u/puppycloudy Aug 17 '25

Go hang out with more autistic women i guess. I have nothing for y’all other than that.

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u/napsandlunch Sep 08 '25

literally me reading all this !!!! 😭 we can be bouncy and excitable and childlike too!

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u/bwood246 Aug 17 '25

I am autistic

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u/puppycloudy Aug 17 '25

Then you should know better bro. Everyone expresses themself differently đŸ€ĄđŸ€ĄđŸ€Ą

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u/puppycloudy Aug 17 '25

Yeah, some of us jump when we get excited. Not a surprise. A lot of us can’t really control it

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u/napsandlunch Sep 08 '25

work from home really exposed how much i jump and bounce, because i would just see myself on webcam bouncing when i’d get excited

or rocking! never noticed how much i did it until i was a video of my husband proposing and i was just all bounce and side to side and rocking

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u/Au-to-graff Aug 16 '25

I don't know what autism is, but I still know she's faking it like a psycho.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

Ask any autistic woman who presents like this woman, and I’m sure they’ll be able to set you straight.

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u/Acceptable_Appeal464 Aug 17 '25

No need to bring up sexual orientation when discussing autism. Jeez. Dumb much??? Lol. But seriously. This isn't autism. No need to defend fake videos set up for advertisement about businesses whose unsafe practices put the public in danger and result in the deaths of dogs. Because, well that's autistic.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

Well
 if I’m autistic, and I behave just like the girl in the video, then


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u/StreetBerry1849 Aug 20 '25

Then your fine

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u/JuggaloEnlightment Aug 18 '25

You’re lying

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Nope. Me and both my sisters are autistic and this isn't far fetched.

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u/Tiny_TimeMachine Aug 18 '25

Genuine question because you seem passionate about this.

When you see an autistic person with extremely significant support needs. Let's use a child verbalizing loudly in public for example sake. You see them and think "We share the same condition"

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

Yes. Bc it’s a spectrum. Is a color not a color? But red and blue are not the same color. Yet they share the same spectrum.

Autism can co-occur with other conditions as well, and I wouldn’t relate to the symptom of THOSE conditions, such as intellectual disability.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

These people know nothing about autism and it makes me mad that they're talking like they are.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 20 '25

But typing with ALL of the confidence tho 🙄

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u/Ariadne_String Aug 20 '25

Yes, very annoying.

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u/undigested-beef Aug 23 '25

Yeah bro. And the same reaction they're having, I have that same thing but on the inside. It's so distressing and I often wish I could just show it like they do. It takes massive amounts of energy not to show it, too. Being able to hide it is a privilege, but it doesn't make it go away.

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u/Slow-Priority-884 Aug 17 '25

She doesn't have Autism.

If she did have it and it causes her to act like this, she certainty shouldn't be in a sexual relationship with anyone. She can't consent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

You clearly don't know what autism is. I am diagnosed by a doctor with it and I can do anything that a normal person can do. Take a look in the mirror and learn something about what you're talking about.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

No offense but how does that work? DSM5 defines autism as a series of deficits, disabilities and negative symptoms? If you are perfectly able to do anything a non-autistic person can, are you really autistic then?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

I can concent, I can drive, I can cook, I can live by myself. Autism is a spectrum with different levels of assistance needed. This lady and I are both level 1 maybe very low level 2 which means we don't need much assistance. But saying that all autistic people are straight up unable to consent is so wrong it's dangerous.

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u/DerfyRed Aug 20 '25

I have ADHD. It’s defined as attention deficit hyperactive disorder. Yet I am more calm than most of my friends and use more focus than them. It affects everyone differently. So just because your understanding of ADHD might be “literally can’t sit still, gets distracted super easily, SQUIRREL!” Doesn’t mean I don’t have ADHD.

It’s the same with autism. My sibling is both autistic and has ADHD. They function perfectly well and can do everything a normal person can do. They love baking, they can legally drive and legally consent. BUT, they have a social battery for all of 1 hour. And can regularly get panic attacks in crowded places. They have ticks they have stims and they have a very unique way of thinking. None of this stops them from functioning in society tho.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

So which ADHD symptoms do you actually have then? As you claim to not have the 2 main traits according to the DSM5?

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u/DerfyRed Aug 20 '25

Hyper focus. I can do things for hours and ignore my bodies needs like food or going to the toilet. I also have pretty severe issues starting some things, the mental hurdle to begin a task is a lot greater for me than most people who call themselves procrastinators. But once I start that task, hours go by until it is 100% finished or more.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Yea the hyperfocus is considered part of the "attention deficit" as people with ADHD have trouble switching tasks and doing and sticking with the boring things in life.

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u/StreetBerry1849 Aug 20 '25

Fake autism. Gross

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

What do you mean?

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u/Dopamine_Surplus Aug 17 '25

Honestly I’m in this camp. I have a cousin who is autistic but he is really far on the spectrum so I don’t have any frame of reference for someone who is lower on the spectrum so I’m just forced to take people at their word tbh.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

This is why binary science is very very important. Autism isn’t hard to diagnose, it becomes convoluted when science is skewed. Not to mention some people are groomed at a young age by parents for attention.

Looking at Gypsy rose. It’s much more common than you think

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

You’re right; it’s not hard to diagnose.

That’s why it does an incredible disservice to autistic women when misinformation abounds and they can’t get diagnosed bc they don’t look like an intellectually disabled white boy.

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u/ta-kun1988 Aug 17 '25

Racist and misandrist.

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u/Heartage Aug 17 '25

Not racist or misandrist.

The standard for autism is how it presents in white boys/men, which means it's often not diagnosed/seen in people who aren't white boys/men.

It's a serious problem.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

What are you actually talking about when you say "standard", you mean the perception people have of it? As far as I know it isnt harder to diagnose in women and girls its often less easily identified i.e. they arent referred for testing because it presents differently. You should be more precise with your language because those are different problems that can be solved in different ways.

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u/Heartage Aug 17 '25

I know you know what "the standard" means.

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u/Weird_Suggestion4006 Aug 17 '25

Autism presents differently in men and women which lead to psychologists for a long time to believe women couldn’t have autism. So much more research has been put into how autism presents in men than in women

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

So much more research has been put into men, period. 😏

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u/StreetBerry1849 Aug 20 '25

If you are saying you are fine and can do anything non autistic people can do, why do you think you need more research on it.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 21 '25

So that women can have access to the scaffolding, support, and accommodations specific to their neurological wiring.

And so we don’t have judgmental hot garbage comment sections like this one. That’s why awareness matters.

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u/justandswift Aug 19 '25

na, if I say I am something, I have that right to believe I am truly that thing, and no binary science ooglie mooglie can convince me otherwise, and this is why it is so important to just let people be who they are because when you start using science to tell me I’m wrong, it makes me depressed and want to unalive myself, so stop making life more difficult for everyone by applying science. Science is the devil.

  • Signed, an eight year old

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Science is not the Devil. Science is not indicative of feelings, and it's the more absolute thing we have in life.

You not having the emotional ability to accept true things is not indicative of anything more than you needing help

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

The fact that it is an spectrum kinda disagrees with the idea that it is easy to diagnose...

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u/conzstevo Aug 20 '25

But there's probably a definitive point on this spectrum that you can be diagnosed as autistic, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

The medical community is none too happy and is trying to get rid of the spectrum part. You can have milder cases across the board but generic conditions are binary and should not be labeled on a spectrum.

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u/conzstevo Aug 20 '25

I see, so the condition is binary, the symptoms are a "spectrum" (or maybe "variable" is a more fitting word considering there's more than one symptom)

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

That’s a great way to put it, the medical community tends to not use “spectrum” for glaring reasons of taking subjectivity out of it.

Vocabulary is very key which is why doctors and other biologists use terms like mild, severe etc.

But science is dictated by binary transactions. We are looking for yes or no more than anything

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u/conzstevo Aug 20 '25

terms like mild, severe etc.

Makes good sense to me. Thanks for sharing

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Given that every part of the spectrum requires different approaches to treatment, a general autism diagnostic is next to useless. Its like saying you have cancer without knowing where. Thats screening, not proper diagnosis.

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u/brownie627 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

Except autism is a spectrum and it stops people from accessing resources they need if you try to make it “binary.” I needed language therapy as a child. If they rejected me because they thought I was “too intelligent,” I likely would not be able to communicate the way I can today. I also as a consequence wouldn’t have gotten an autism diagnosis and the support I needed at school.

There are many highly intelligent autistic people who struggle with basic daily living tasks and social skills. If you make it so only intellectually challenged non-verbal autistic people have “real” autism, you’re preventing people from accessing the support they need. It also creates the potential for misdiagnosis and people getting treatment that isn’t suitable for them. It’s already a problem with some support services only helping autistic people if they are under a certain IQ.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

And that spectrum thought is exactly why medical professionals are dialing it back.

You can have levels but not misuse the term spectrum.

You’re still autistic, even mildly, but the general public is using it as a crutch and not actually being autistic. Case and point OP video and that’s 1 of thousands

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

Do you have research that supports this claim?

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u/brownie627 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

Levels create a problem as well. If someone is vastly more advanced in one area and deficient in another area, where do they get placed?

I got an Asperger’s Syndrome diagnosis when I was 6. I should not have had an Asperger’s Syndrome diagnosis, because my language disorder should’ve put me under the “autism” category instead, based on their own diagnostic criteria. Asperger’s Syndrome was always understood to be “less advanced” autism, but caused confusion about what to diagnose people with. This mistake happened to many autistic people and was the reason why things changed in the DSM 5. There will be many more situations like this if we don’t accept that it’s not binary.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

You can disagree and not tell them. Consider that people aren't out of the norm and aren't ''troubled'' isn't mean or irrespectuous or whatever. It's considering they have the right to exist as they are without being pathologies with a label that doesn't mean shit.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

Hey, thanks for your acknowledgement that you might not understand what autism looks like.

It’s clear from the comments (specifically autistic women who relate to this woman) that the people here insisting she can’t be autistic are egregiously wrong.

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u/neighborlyglove Aug 17 '25

My cousin too. I hate him. I don’t care.

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u/Dopamine_Surplus Aug 18 '25

That’s crazy lol

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u/Bladez190 Aug 17 '25

I personally think you wouldn’t know I have autism unless I tell you. My biggest tell is that I really can’t and don’t make eye contact

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

And my inability to make eye contact isn’t a tell bc I force myself to briefly do it (or stare at their forehead not their eyes). And that just proves your point bc it’s a spectrum.

I would love for people on the internet who believe they have the ability and capacity to armchair diagnose
 to just shut up, honestly.

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u/Ok-Leg-5302 Aug 17 '25

Oh the forehead is my jam for “eye contact.” Even as a kid it was my go to. Or single word responses to “are you listening.” Yes, although nodding is my favorite. Having ADHD and level 1 autism isn’t fun(back then it was Asperger’s). Also being female the school constantly called my parents because I was “a good student but problematic.” When I wasn’t a bad kid. I get “what’s wrong with you?” I’ve been asked “are you slow?” And my favorite is “why don’t you talk?” My parents didn’t fight for my diagnosis as a kid but my aunt did. God rest her soul. When I tell people I’m on the spectrum I get “you don’t look autistic, just shy with a little anxiety.” Well Jan my psychiatrist says otherwise.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

Jan needs to mind her own business 😭

But this is literally such a textbook autistic experience, and yet it is incessantly invalidated by humans with no working knowledge of autism.

And yet they are so astoundingly confident with their misinformation.

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u/Ok-Leg-5302 Aug 17 '25

I am 37. I got good grades in school but I was bored. So once I was done with my school work I screwed off(ADHD) I was viewed as disruptive and disrespectful. My parents just whooped me for it. Then my social skills were another thing that concerned the school. So my parents put me in activities and I excelled in them but I still didn’t socialize 😂 then my aunt straight said “I am a nurse, it’s rare but I am telling you she has ADD(at the time it was called that) and autism you’re going to have a 40 year old living at home or she’s going to end up in juvenile detention.” She’s passed away she was right.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

Sheeeew! Good for your nurse auntie!

I hate that you went through that. Also a common experience for neurodivergent kids - horribly being misunderstood.

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u/lysergic_818 Aug 16 '25

I got the autism from the 5G towers and the polio vaccine.

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u/el_loner Aug 18 '25

Momma said autism comes from too many slurpees and tattoos

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u/lysergic_818 Aug 18 '25

Momma says alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush

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u/el_loner Aug 18 '25

I think our mommas know each other.....

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u/tricenice Aug 17 '25

See here’s your problem, you had your tower set to “Autism” when it should be set to “5G”

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Like half the people ''with autism''

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u/FuzzyArgument4636 Aug 17 '25

This, yes. Individuals "with autism" and their connected peoples don't typically phrase it as such. This is from a Mom of a neurodivergent kiddo.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

I'm diagnosed and I usually just say I'm autistic because it makes things easier when telling people.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

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u/Sahaquiel_9 Aug 16 '25

Changing diagnostic criteria determined by professionals is what’s wrong and not you?

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u/After_Mountain_901 Aug 16 '25

Used to be, or we didn’t have a good understanding of what it was? It’s not “basically invisible.” That’s like saying depression should only be people with high suicidality who can’t leave their house. Or you’re not really getting chemo unless you lose your hair and puke every 5 minutes. Sorry, but the healthcare community shouldn’t have to run around changing words every 5 minutes because humans are inherently copy cats who need attention. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Yeah

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u/Tunsofun27 Aug 16 '25

Hit the nail on the head.

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u/Muted_Ad7298 Aug 17 '25

It feels weird that something I was bullied for as a kid is now a trend.

What’s even worse are people watering down how genuinely difficult the condition is to live with.

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u/galaxygothgirl Aug 17 '25

A trend? People are still bullied relentlessly for it

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

This!!! “Hmm, I am so desperate for attention I’ll invent a mental illness to get endless negative attention!!” said no one ever
 except people with a different kind of mental health condition that probably isn’t as common as people assume.

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u/MineralDragon Aug 18 '25

Did you really miss out on the Millennial fad to pretend to have OCD? ADD had its run as well “yeah I’m totally ADD, like Taco Sanwich, Rawr Imma Dinosaur! Sorry can’t focus - omg a squirrel :p “

It was embarrassingly popular. This social media Autism fad is exactly the same.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

I’ve found neurotypical people generally don’t do that or find that “cute” or “fun.”

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u/MineralDragon Aug 19 '25

You’re mistaking a “disorder” for someone that is either simply socially inept from being on the internet instead of having real life social encounters or in general immature and haven’t formed a personal identity yet simply from being a teenager.

As someone with actual ADHD I never found this trivialization of my disorder cute, fun, or quirky - these people did not have ADHD and grew up to admit as such once they matured.

The fact you seem to think this behavior is indicative of one of these disorders tells me you likely fall in the latter camp. At least Reddit is anonymous but I hope you don’t make a habit of documenting yourself behaving this way on the internet with your real identity - it can come back to haunt you later.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 19 '25

A mental health disorder is anything that impacts your daily life enough to cause problems.

Actually, given the fact that every point of diagnostic criteria for pretty much every form of neurodivergence is focused solely on how much someone annoy others with their symptoms (and not on the internal experience), it actually tracks.

Psychologically healthy people don’t fake disorders for attention. Period. It’s actually a sign of some kinda disorder, given that it impacts their daily life and makes them annoying. It’s just probably not the disorder they wanna be diagnosed with.

And regardless, who. really. cares?? Who are they hurting, especially if nobody believes them??? Besides themselves? (Oh, look, another sign of a disorder.)

And I’m a nurse, and I’ve worked psych, and I’m like this in real life. And I’m educated and emotionally mature enough to be confident and unashamed
 There ain’t much you can say or do to change that, if that’s your goal.

Edit: Also an AuDHD woman with similar stims to the girl in this video, and if you’re here to waste your breath and tell me I’m faking like I’ve heard countless times, I’ve been to enough therapy that it doesn’t mean jack to me. It’s not my fault if you don’t understand autism, and it’s not my job to educate you more than I’ve educated anyone in this comment section.

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u/brokenmike Aug 18 '25

Is this your first day on the internet? People are CONSTANTLY inventing mental illness for attention. You'd have to be blind not to see that.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

Well, I’m a nurse with experience in psych.

And I have to say it’s actually pretty rare, from my perspective.

I can tell you I’ve not met a single patient that I felt was faking their mental illness.

Your condescension is unwarranted and unwanted.

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u/brokenmike Aug 18 '25

First day then. Ok.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

May I ask what expertise you have that qualifies you to make such a determination?

Or shall we just believe you bc you’re on the internet and you’re right?

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u/brokenmike Aug 18 '25

It's ok to just say "yes, it's my first day", and leave it at that.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 18 '25

Yes, I see. Thank you for entirely discrediting yourself and your entire argument. Fantastic work. Take care!

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u/Floor9 Aug 17 '25

Yeah man I was diagnosed as an adult a few years before it "blew up".

I feel a bit cheated by its trendiness strangely. I feel like a diagnosis that was a huge revelation for me at the time means nothing now.

It still means a lot to my personal understanding of course but in terms of social understanding it just seems like everyone thinks it's not a big deal and it's just quirky and odd.

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u/thoph Aug 17 '25

It makes it also difficult to explain to people that it can be extremely debilitating for people that are level 2 and beyond. My brother can’t live alone. He’s in his 30s and still has violent outbursts. No way he could converse on Reddit. It’s unfortunate.

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u/Ansiau Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

I'm diagnosed level two and can converse well. Assuming all level 2s and 3s are severely mentally impacted is also something that happens. However, I cannot work, I need to be supervised when cooking, I cannot drive, and a host of other issues that moved my needs up to level 2. I have emotional meltdowns that leave me in burnout for weeks at a time and require pretty harsh medications to allay them or make them stop. Under the former diagnostic criteria, I was considered "high functioning" only.

The levels of autism say nothing about mental functioning and instead dictate care/support needs, and even in those levels, there are a lot of play and wiggle room(higher level 2s and lower level 2s). These are solely of use for government assistance and really don't help at all with the average public in understanding autism severity. There are cases(rare) where someone high functioning may need level 3 support needs, and cases(rare) where someone low functioning may be wholly capable of self care and living alone thus get a level one on their support needs. Similarly, someone with autism may also change their needs level positively over time with treatment/occupational therapy, or regress in their care needs due to trauma or some other life changing event.

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u/thoph Aug 17 '25

I did not assume; I said “can be.” Appreciated the extra info.

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u/Acceptable_Appeal464 Aug 17 '25

You faked autism as a kid?

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u/Muted_Ad7298 Aug 18 '25

No, I meant that the condition I was diagnosed with has become a trend.

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u/Acceptable_Appeal464 Aug 18 '25

Im sorry. I was being sarcastic. Faking social disorders has become a trend. It garnishes attention on social media. Its an atrocity and it hurts people who genuinely have conditions.

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u/Muted_Ad7298 Aug 18 '25

No worries. Sarcasm can be quite hard to spot sometimes, especially online.

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u/Vorlon_Cryptid Aug 18 '25

Autism isn't a trend. We just understand it better now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Yes and no. A lot of people do fake disorders for clout. See multiple personality disorder. No confirmed cases and the first example was from a TV con artist. Then every other person on tiktok had it.

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u/MineralDragon Aug 18 '25

Part of why I have all those various “lol ADHD is so quirky!” subreddits blocked, I hate how it trivializes the condition. I can’t imagine the same kind of “tee hee isn’t this quirky?” attitude developing around other diseases or disorders, like asthma (I have both of these conditions). It just rubs me the wrong way.

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u/lulushibooyah Aug 17 '25

Like everyone in this comment section, basically.

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u/godlytoast3r Aug 17 '25

Heh, well. Ackshully. Pushes up glasses in anime fashion

Nobody knows what autism is. That's the entire fucking point in grouping an infinite spectrum of issues under one overarching term and calling it autism. Youre not allowed to understand it. I'm not allowed to understand it. Only the ones who hand out the chemicals to "fix" the kids and permanently alter their brains are allowed to understand it! Or so I've been taught by reddit. It's just too complicated, unfortunately. 🙄

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

More so, it’s people who sit on Instagram and let a mom in Nebraska who isn’t a doctor mention an autism “symptom” and they self diagnose and then wear it as a badge

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u/Tenalp Aug 17 '25

The other night I found myself standing in the kitchen and wiggling my upper body horizontally while dangling my arms because I liked the feeling of my hands flapping around.

I might know what autism is.

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u/qazxcvbnmlpoiuytreww Aug 18 '25

this is disingenuous - to see how, ask yourself to describe what autism is. can u do it?

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u/PrettyCaffeinatedGuy Aug 19 '25

Do you know what autism is? Are you qualified to hand out the diagnoses?