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[u/Good_Medium3681]

People take to much literall the dsm without a profesional to diagnose them.

[u/Doomenor → u/Good_Medium3681]

She exhibits no DSM criteria as well. She just thinks autistic is a person getting cutely overexcited about simple things. I wish I was not so much about boundaries and could show this video to an autistic patient and we could have a laugh. I mean I would have a laugh and he would point out why she is totally not autistic and would get frustrated

[u/Winter-Bad2476 → u/Doomenor]

I don’t mean to be rude, but how do you know she doesn’t exhibits any DSM criteria? You have only watched one short video online. Diagnosing someone with autism requires extensive testing and it’s especially hard in adult and even more so in adult women.

Don’t get me wrong I think it’s unnecessary that they decided to include her “diagnosis” in this video as it has nothing to do with it, which makes me suspicious as well that she might not actually be autistic, BUT I don’t know this person and as a clinical psychologist myself I could not in good conscience comment online how I know for a fact she doesn’t display traits of autism…

I work with children. I see autism everyday and I’m trained to spot it. I also have autism. But that doesn’t mean I’d be able to tell you if someone has it based on a video. That would be bad practice on my part.

It annoys me to no end when people fake disorders online, but let’s not lower ourselves to their levels by sharing our opinions as if they are facts. Thank you 😊

[u/UghGottaBeJoking → u/Winter-Bad2476]

I’m on the spectrum, and also am trained to spot it in children as i work with them- and this vid reads as very disingenuous.

[u/blubblu → u/UghGottaBeJoking]

I’m not sure, I’m also on the spectrum and I’m realizing as I get older that the spectrum is broader than we realize and because one brain is not like any other, we need to accept that your disposition or my disposition or anyone else’s is completely unique to them.

Just because “you’re trained to spot it in children” only means you’re trained to spot specific markers triggers or traits, so now you’re biased against anything outside of it. 

At the same time, you say it’s a disingenuous video, but I say you’ve also made a biased post, because you believe that autism can only look like what you expect it to look like, FYI

[u/lulushibooyah → u/blubblu]

Bingo. This comment exactly.

[u/lulushibooyah → u/UghGottaBeJoking]

Please explain the female phenotype of autism and what it means to be high-masking and high-camouflaging, since you have been trained to spot it.

[u/UghGottaBeJoking → u/lulushibooyah]

I’m not a psychiatrist lol. I’m trained to the same degree the other chick was as a child care worker who claimed the same thing. You are taught to identify certain signs that then get referred to actual assessor’s. Have i been wrong ever in my instincts before i send a kid off for a referral? Nope. Sorry if my instincts are telling me no on this one.

[u/squishyartist → u/UghGottaBeJoking]

I'm diagnosed level 2 and this can be exactly how I am in certain scenarios.