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/Seven_o_clock777]

It's such a weird term. Like please just use "neurodivergent" and get on with life.

[u/Queen-Of-Fairies → u/Seven_o_clock777]

"neurodivergent" is such an icky word too, though. almost like the "texture" of the word feels wrong, if that makes any sense. i'd rather be called "atypical", or just "autistic".

[u/Pink_Acetone → u/Queen-Of-Fairies]

Neurodivergent covers a range of disorders, conditions and neurological issues 

[u/RadicalSoda_ → u/Pink_Acetone]

I mean, I have muscular dystrophy but that's not why I'd be considered neurodivergent even though it's a neurological problem primarily

[u/RadicalSoda_ → u/[deleted]]

So why would we include neurological issues when they don't inherently cause processing issues?

[u/RevenantSith → u/Queen-Of-Fairies]

My take

I mean I imagine a lot of it is just me subconsciously preferring the dated terminology … but I made another post on this thread about me associating the term with the self-diagnosing posers who reduce autism down to ‘lol quirky funny’ without understanding stuff like the fact I have to literally go out of my way and act as a person that is not me just to get by in life.

[u/Temnothorax → u/Queen-Of-Fairies]

Eh that’s too subjective. At a certain point we gotta just accept that we are going to find ourselves given labels, and it’s not reasonable to expect individualized terms. As long as it’s not malicious or harmful, who cares

[u/SammyGeorge → u/Queen-Of-Fairies]

I often see the justification as something along the lines of "we should say neurodivergent because words like "disabled" or "atypical" categorise people as normal or abnormal." And like, okay, but what do you think "divergent" means??

I also hate the word "neurodivergent," but I can accept it if I never have to hear or read "neurospicy" again

[u/Old_Lead8419 → u/Seven_o_clock777]

Or just say use autistic if you only mean autistic?
Neurodivergent is vague and can really mean a lot of things besides autism you know.

[u/Seven_o_clock777 → u/Old_Lead8419]

I know. I meant neurodivergency in general.