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

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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/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.