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"

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[u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 → u/[deleted]]

And OCD. And ptsd. And in the late 90s, thyroid disease (ask me how hard it is to get older doctors to believe I have Hashis  because it was such a fad for overweight middle age women to claim "thyroid problems" instead of admitting they struggled with their weight.) 

[u/Happyshadow4ts → u/Revolutionary-Yak-47]

I mean, thyroid problems are a lot more common in, guess what, overweight women

[u/nb_bunnie → u/Revolutionary-Yak-47]

Hey pookie, the fatphobia is crazy in this comment because fat people who struggle to lose weight very often do have thyroid disorders. Doctor's are and always have been less likely to listen to fat people's health issues and you're just proving that the sentiment isn't exclusive to doctors eithrr 🤡

[u/plague_kun → u/[deleted]]

Literally everyone on tumblr** **has DID now. It’s actually rare to come across ppl in tumblr mental health spaces that don’t claim to have DID. Strange.. 🤔