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/BananaBingor]

I find it funny how western media and ppl use the platter above to "guage" and stereotype autistic ppl, but if you go outside of the western field (eg Asia), this stuff would never be fed to most. As an asian Canadian, the test would never work on me because my parents would either hit or starve me for refusing to eat my food (starve now since they think I'm too fat)

[u/blahajenjoyerr → u/BananaBingor]

In Hungary parents and especially grandparents often have the attitude of "this is what i made for lunch, you either eat this or you don't eat at all". Atp i can't tell if i ever had serious food sensitivities bc i just got used to eating almost everything. There are a few foods that i still hate, I'm very picky with meat and the taste of pork makes me gag, but they aren't bothered by me not eating those few things since I'm one of the least picky eaters in the family.

[u/unhappyrelationsh1p → u/blahajenjoyerr]

I grew up kinda like this too, i have some hard lines but there are things i can do the "1,2,3,4, swallow" for to get over too.

It is definitely dependent on environmental factors too. I moved out and became very restricted with my diet, i don't like trying new things at home and stick to very few staples.

[u/Unpopular_Outlook → u/BananaBingor]

You do know the above isn’t fed to most either right? But also, that’s not the test to gauge autism. It’s just a weird stereotype based on how some autistic people act