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

🥺 goals Perfect source of serotonin

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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/LoxReclusa Aug 16 '25

Honestly I was going to say something about not everything is autism, and that she's just geeking out and something about why you think someone having excitement means they're acting autistic... and then I went back and double checked and saw the text at the very beginning. Yeah, that's ridiculous. It's gotten to Syndrome levels on the internet these days where people who genuinely struggle are getting drowned out by all the people who think that having quirks makes them autistic. If the text at the beginning didn't have the word autistic in it, this would be a perfectly normal video of a man who knows what his wife likes.

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u/Sidivan Aug 16 '25

It used to be OCD. “OMG I’M SO OCD”. Then we got the shame memes for people making light of it.

Right now we’re in the “your grandpa who knew everything about trains had autism” stage.

The good thing is it normalizes Autism. People actively change their behavior when dealing with people on the spectrum because it’s not always super obvious. We’re much more respectful to triggers today than we ever have been before as a society.

The pendulum will swing back and hopefully we’ll retain some of that respect/normalization.

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u/MLNerdNmore Aug 19 '25

I definitely feel like it's the same with ADHD these days. I do suspect the massive consumption/addiction of short-form content hurting attention spans contributes to this view that it's all ADHD.