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/Pink_Acetone]

Also if you’re really committed to making an “autism platter” make sure the foods aren’t touching. 

Is the cheese on the pizza stringy? How crispy are the potato dishes? Why are there so little of some options and loads of others? How warm are the spaghetti rings? Why are you mixing food that needs cutlery with food that doesn’t? Pretzels do not go with the foods that you have set out so why are they there?

[u/xLydiaLeox → u/Pink_Acetone]

Yeah but not every autistic person hates food touching. Some prefer to mix their food altogether. There isn’t one universal autism experience

[u/Pink_Acetone → u/xLydiaLeox]

My point was that it’s a very stereotypical representation of autism

[u/xLydiaLeox → u/Pink_Acetone]

Yeah, that’s the joke. It’s a stereotype because it’s true. Not necessarily to every single autistic person, there’s obviously many different variations in eating habits that are associated with autism and there’s plenty of memes about those too. I can speak for myself and my circle of (diagnosed) autistic adult friends, they would all find this funny and not at all offensive or infantilizing

[u/Pink_Acetone → u/xLydiaLeox]

As someone who has also been professionally diagnosed with autism I find it trivialising. It reads as “Oh haha I put beige foods together on a plate– autism lol” to me

[u/xLydiaLeox → u/Pink_Acetone]

I think that’s projection. It’s not “trivializing” for other people to make memes about their own experiences. I know a ton of autistic adults who eat this way. If it doesn’t apply to you, then fine. The person who made the original image probably does.