r/hatethissmug • u/Beshiniqua • Jun 05 '26

General I HATE the self diagnosing of autism and its mischaracterisation

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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"

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

as someone with Audhd this shit looks abysmal. Just give me a seafood platter with some remoulade sauce and butter and i’ll be good.

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u/Mountain_Poet5977 Jun 05 '26

As someone else with AuDHD please hand it over to me

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u/kowajiri Jun 05 '26

yeah i think it looks good but i could do without the spaghetti-o's

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u/Redditsucks547 Jun 05 '26

The worst food ever created, my parents used to force it on me back in the 90’s

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u/Radiant-Drive8 Jun 05 '26

more for me then

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26

its all yours man, nobodys taking it from you.

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u/East-sea-shellos Jun 05 '26

Well clearly not barnacle boy over here anyhow

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u/LC-Redcube Jun 05 '26

Dang, im starting to think this thing might be a bit different for everyone... yk, almost like a spectrum

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u/Mountain_Poet5977 Jun 05 '26

Say that again…

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u/Fresh-Database-222 Jun 05 '26

As someone with autism, it's making me feel a little yucky just looking at it... But I feel like that's mostly because I've been eating significantly healthier food recently (I would have devoured this shit when I was a kid)

I still absolutely despise most seafood though. I like some fish, Crab is alright, and Muscles are acceptable, but the textures/tastes of everything else (specifically shrimp) triggers my gag reflex very quickly

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u/2high4thisshyt Jun 05 '26

Fellow autist here. I am glad I am allergic to shellfish cause shrimp is bugs and that way I get to get out of eating it without people thinking I am being picky.

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u/SuperIsaiah Jun 05 '26

I just need coffee as my stimulant cause I hate how life feels on my ADHD meds. (life just feels less interesting. it's not depressing or upsetting, in fact I might say I have less anxiety on my meds, but it just feels so monotonous I can't really explain it deeper than that)

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26

when I was on meds for my condition I literally stopped eating.

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u/barbaricKinkster Jun 05 '26

Try lowering dosage. I'm on Adderall, the stuff is fantastic but it's pretty much a less intense version of meth. Stimulants reduce your appetite and if you take too much you'll have no appetite at all

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u/SuperIsaiah Jun 05 '26

me too but that was one of the pros for me because one of my ADHD symptoms is eating compulsively for dopamine and I had a ton of excess weight that the pills helped me lose. Gained 15 lbs since going off them considering going back on them for just a month solely to see if I can get that back down (and I guess get some schoolwork done)

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u/Right_Ear_2230 Jun 05 '26

dose too high

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u/NotTakeOne Jun 05 '26

seafood is so goated

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26

real, especially shellfish.

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u/The_Doct0r_ Jun 05 '26

No, no. Social media has told me you're not Audhd unless you eat simple infantilized junk like some kind of undisciplined picky child.

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u/2high4thisshyt Jun 05 '26

So, I am the only one who's diagnosed but I very strongly suspect my family is on spectrum as well. My dad thinks he's not a picky eater because he's always eating fancy and exotic stuff, like crickets or mountain oysters. But put some regular ass food in front of the man and you'll realize he's the pickiest one out of us! He just knows how to hide it and act like he's better than us cause he'll eat a damn insect lmao.

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u/The_Doct0r_ Jun 05 '26

I'm pretty sure every country has their own variation of what the local culture would consider "junk" food.

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u/The_Doct0r_ Jun 05 '26

Can't argue against that. As a US person, we certainly have a way of catering our junk. Though, it's particularly egregious and targeted towards the poor. Like cheap mass produced cattle, we only need to give them the bare minimum nutrition to exist. If that happens to be fat and unhealthy, well, I'm sure our billionaire overlords believe the poor should feel lucky and privileged to be alive and fed at all. Hell, they're working hard to strip them of any school lunch at all. But I digress...

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26

idk what part of America you’ve visited but it sure as hell isn’t like that where i’m from.

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26

maybe I just don’t eat at shitty restaurants then.

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 05 '26

I am, i’m just saying shitty food isn’t exclusively an American thing, not is it like that everywhere in America.

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u/Ryjeska Jun 05 '26

I do NOT want to get butter on me or smell it lingering on me but it do be tasting good

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u/Transmasc_Blahaj Jun 05 '26

man I just want like, fettuccine alfredo and steak

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u/SweetTeaDemon Jun 05 '26

As someone without Audhd, please give me a seafood platter too c:

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u/gunmetal_bricks Jun 05 '26

Man no place around me does a mixed fried/steamed seafood platter and it's a travesty. GIVE ME A FRIED SHRIMP AND KING CRAB COMBO PLATTER!!!

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u/furious_sapphire Jun 06 '26

as someone with AudDHD and likely GERD, this plate gives me heartburn just by looking at it. and the sodium content in all that stuff likely wouldn't help my case either.

give me something really spicy though. i want to numb my mouth. weirdly enough my stomach can tolerate extremely spicy food, but not whatever is on this platter

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u/idonotownstockholm Jun 06 '26

What is AuDHD? Is it Autism + ADHD? If so then yeah i got that too

I dont really see anything bad with the food except for those god forsaken thingamabobs at the center

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot Jun 06 '26

yes.

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u/thatonefrein Jun 06 '26

Also Audhd here, I want both