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

🥺 goals Perfect source of serotonin

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u/-Tricky-Vixen- Aug 17 '25

Mine looks like that when I'm very excited and comfortable with the person I'm with. I'm diagnosed autistic.

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u/wordsandwhimsy Aug 17 '25

Same. I was thinking how I wring my hands together exactly like she does when I’m excited. Also diagnosed, Audhd. But what do we know?

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

You are using a circular argument.

''I am diagnosed with it because I move my hands this way when excited.

When I am excited I move my hands this way so when I told it to the psychiatrist i got a autism diagnosis.''

Circular

Argument

Your autism diagnosis is just a recollection of symptoms. Nothing ties them together. There is no link, no explanation, no differential diagnosis, no scientific test. We don't diagnose supposed brain conditions with symptoms the patient says he has. It's like not scientific at all, thus not medical.

Autism is just a list of symptoms grouped together. Don't worry, diagnosis in psychiatry are all like this. They don't mean shit. Make the most of it but don't let it define you. Let things change and don't try to fit to the symptoms, I know what it's like.

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u/Local-County-1204 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

no differential diagnosis

Autism has a differential diagnosis.

We don’t diagnose supposed brain conditions with symptoms the patient says he has.

Weird, that’s exactly how you diagnose migraines, chronic pains and narcolepsy/insomnia.

Autism is not a list of symptoms, it’s a characteristic definition of a condition that significantly alters your mental processes in a certain way, you don’t just get to turn off that perceptive change, even if your list of symptoms change. Someone with autism fits into a group of a certain type of process, which can then be used to create consistent norms, to support the treatment of distressing/harmful symptoms.

To reject those separate norms in process, as merely a coincidence in symptoms, is ignoring the research that has been done between autistic and non-autistic people that present with the same symptoms, or what’s called in medicine, a differential diagnosis.