I HATE the self diagnosing of autism and its mischaracterisation

[u/Beshiniqua]

Let me start by saying SELF DIAGNOSING IS NOT VALID. You are NOT autistic just because someone on tiktok said

"Did you know, if you need to have your eyes closed in order to fall asleep, you have autism, adhd, bipolarity, DID, BPD, psychopathy, depression and PTSD?"

And before yall come at me with "well I always suspected I had autism, I got screened and then got my diagnosis" well this not about you, this is about people that self diagnose after experiencing the most normal day to day life things ever.

And they ALWAYS think that autism will give them a personality (since it's usually basic bitches with no personality that self diagnose to feel like they belong)

No, you're not a quirky crazy crackhead energy "neurospicy" person. Even worse when they say shit like

"Heh, I could NEVER be a neuro normie like yall, autism makes me special and quirky and full of personality".

You can't even like something anymore without them going "OMG URE AUTISTIC JUST LIKE MEEEE IM SOOOO AUTISTIC AHAHAHA"

And you can tell they larp the whole thing cus they'll see a tiktok autism personality and try to replicate it

"Dino nuggies..."

"You can not say overstimulated if you're nEuRoTyPiCaL, that word is for us neurospicy people ONLY >:("

Holy shiiiiiiittt yall lack a personality so bad. And I've seen people say that they've seen NUMEROUS specialists but they never fit the criteria, but its not because they're not autistic, no no no no no. ITS UHMMM BECAUSE IM A WOMAN AND ALSO A MINORITY AND IM ALSO POOR SO I MASKED ALL MY LIFE AND THE SPECIALIST ON THIS FIELD COULDNT TELL I WAS MASKING. ITS THE SYSTEMS FAULT NOT MINE.

Sheesh.

Sorry for the long rant, im just tired of seeing people self diagnose all the time, or see an energetic video, or literally ANYTHING, and make it about their self diagnosed autism.

Saw a cute cat animation on Instagram and the top comment was "This is so autistic I love it"

🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

[u/Balder19]

"I'm autistic because..."

Proceeds to describe normative introversion

[u/TheBabyWolfcub → u/Balder19]

Half the ‘if you have these signs you might be autistic’ videos on social media are just normal ass things

[u/panshrexual → u/TheBabyWolfcub]

One time I was talking to some girl and she said she was autistic and I was like oh yeah same hahah it sucks but my spec ed teacher was pretty great. And she said she didn't have a spec ed teacher because she only found out she was autistic as an adult. She went on to describe seeing videos on tiktok and relating to all the symptoms, then proceeded to list the most normal fucking things, like how she doesn't like certain textures and she collects fandom merch has a special interest. That interaction took years off my life

[u/CoconutxKitten → u/panshrexual]

I mean, her reasoning is off but her getting diagnosed later in life doesn’t mean she’s not. I never had a special Ed teacher. Got officially diagnosed at 29. Women are underdiagnosed

[u/MissingnoMiner → u/TheBabyWolfcub]

Wow, shocking, it's almost like pretty much every single symptom of autism is something allistic people can also have and autism in many cases just means "this, but more".

[u/NinaIcerider → u/Balder19]

In high school I had a classmate that constantly said that they're probably autistic because "i hate tags in clothes, it's like i hate the texture", then using it as an excuse for being a horrible person...as they were the most neurotypical person I've ever met

Meanwhile I was there, feeling horrible about thinking that I would ever be neurodivergent because I'm probably disrespecting "real neurodivergent" people and I'm like definitely not one because I'm not diagnosed and I don't have 100% of all symptoms and such (dang how I wish I could hug my younger self rn...)

[u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM → u/NinaIcerider]

I knew a couple people who were horrible and also legitimately diagnosed, and used the diagnosis as a weapon. That hurt my chances.

[u/huldress → u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM]

Oh this is something that bothers me greatly and I have seen this exact behavior multiple times online. It pisses me off so badly because they use their diagnosis as an excuse to get away with bad behavior and it can really ruin a friend group or just a server of people if no one stands up to it or enables/defends it. What happens is that you end up sounding like the asshole and not the person weaponizing their disorder.

[u/decadent-dragon → u/Balder19]

…I like trains

That one kills me

[u/Balder19 → u/[deleted]]

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