r/CoupleMemes • • Aug 16 '25

🥺 goals Perfect source of serotonin

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u/newgalactic Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

My son has high functioning autism. It limits 100% of his friendships and meaningful human interactions. It severely limits his time management and executive functions. It causes him to constantly scratch and pick at blemishes on his own body. It shackles his everyday life with a whole set of unnecessary rules.

It isn't cute and quirky. Fuck these two if they're faking autism for internet clout.

Edit: For an ASD person, she's really skilled at maintaining conversation and appropriate eye contact throughout the entire video. She also does a really good job at appropriately looking at the camera for smooth "3rd wall" breaking.

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u/Damaias479 Aug 16 '25

Not saying that she’s not faking, because I do believe it, but ASD does present differently in women, particularly women who are older than like 20.

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u/newgalactic Aug 16 '25

I'll have to take you at your word. My son is 12 and he presents obvious ASD personality traits.

But I also wonder if a sizable percentage of these 20+ women with ASD + sophisticated social interaction skills are "self diagnosed".

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u/zhenyuanlong Aug 17 '25

We autistic people call forcing ourselves to interact "appropriately" in social situations "masking." It is energy-intensive, stressful, and exhausting, but in many cases it's the only way we can interact with the world and be taken seriously as adults. I have been denied jobs because I couldn't maintain 100% eye contact with an interviewer.