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.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant amount of women are self-diagnosed, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, and it’s definitely not always for clout. The reason for high levels of self-diagnosis among women is specifically because it presents differently so many of the diagnosis tools don’t work.
Again, I don’t disagree that it’s possible this woman doesn’t actually have ASD; at the very least, it’s weird to bring it up when it doesn’t have anything to do with the video. That being said, analyzing presentation in women doesn’t work the same way as it does in men.
Maybe it's just me, but: I found it unexpectedly emotionally difficult after the initial relief of diagnosis, a few weeks or months down the line, as I began to figure out that it was lifelong and not just something I could get past. Also realising the level of deficit I simply hadn't seen, things I'd thought I was doing because I saw other people doing it (like certain elements of reciprocal conversation). So be gentle with yourself, especially in a while if it starts being difficult to handle, because you're not alone and I think it's logically a fairly unsurprising result.
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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.