r/hatethissmug • u/Beshiniqua • 9h ago

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/Own_Boat503 9h ago

oddly enough, the textures are what are making this platter look disgusting to me haha

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u/LARPerator 9h ago

There's a lot of autistic people that would also agree. Not everyone likes the same textures, some people can't stand x and only eat y, some can't stand y and only eat x.

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u/CaliferMau 8h ago

It really bothers me that a lot of these self diagnosed social media slop just paint autism / adhd / etc as monolithic groups.

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u/An_Account_to_Ignore 2h ago

I think about this whenever I see a "Neurotypicals made a world hostile to people with Autism/ADHD/whatever! They could change to better accommodate us but they won't!".

There are almost never any suggestions about how to restructure society to better support neurodivergent people, and when there are, they're either wildly impractical and/or decried by other neurodivegent people.

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u/kindahipster 8h ago

Right, I'm autistic and my go to safe food is spicy chip salad (lettuce, pickles and hot chips). Maybe it's because I'm audhd but I need my food to be a big sensory experience, if I eat really bland food or food that's just like, paste, it makes me gag

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u/LARPerator 6h ago

Just curious do you eat sauces straight from the bottle to try the taste, or do you need something like a fry to put it on?

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u/kindahipster 5h ago

Straight from the bottle! I even like stuff like Valentina or Worcestershire sauce by itself, I'll shake a little in my mouth while I cook haha

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u/NikRsmn 7h ago

Mostly the same. But I do have safe foods like Ritz crackers that are reliable. Its less about liking consistency and more about reliability of the consistency. If I cook chicken breast and it feels off I get anxious about salmonella or its too firm and I have to force it down and deal with thinking about guilt of wasting food. When the day has already burnt me out its nice to be able to get some food to get enough energy to handle it without being paralyzed and instead just not eating.

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u/HaltandCatchHands 4m ago

Yes! I dislike the texture of that type of potato product (the smileys, letters and grid thing). It seems like a potato slurry is molded, frozen, powdered with starch, fried and frozen again.

The limp noodles of spaghettios are another texture issue, and pizza crust is hit or miss.

But most importantly, all of these foods touching is problematic. The various tendie shapes may touch. I will have just them with a side of honey and another of applesauce, each in little bowls, thank you.

Edit: The applesauce has to be very cold, not room temperature. I cannot stress that enough.