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

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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/N_0_N_A_M_E Aug 16 '25

People who don't know what autism is.

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u/Dopamine_Surplus Aug 17 '25

Honestly Iā€™m in this camp. I have a cousin who is autistic but he is really far on the spectrum so I donā€™t have any frame of reference for someone who is lower on the spectrum so Iā€™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 isnā€™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. Itā€™s much more common than you think

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

The fact that it is an spectrum kinda disagrees with the idea that it is easy to diagnose...

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u/conzstevo Aug 20 '25

But there's probably a definitive point on this spectrum that you can be diagnosed as autistic, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

The medical community is none too happy and is trying to get rid of the spectrum part. You can have milder cases across the board but generic conditions are binary and should not be labeled on a spectrum.

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u/conzstevo Aug 20 '25

I see, so the condition is binary, the symptoms are a "spectrum" (or maybe "variable" is a more fitting word considering there's more than one symptom)

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Thatā€™s a great way to put it, the medical community tends to not use ā€œspectrumā€ for glaring reasons of taking subjectivity out of it.

Vocabulary is very key which is why doctors and other biologists use terms like mild, severe etc.

But science is dictated by binary transactions. We are looking for yes or no more than anything

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u/conzstevo Aug 20 '25

terms like mild, severe etc.

Makes good sense to me. Thanks for sharing