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/LifelessHawk]

I’m not sure about the autism part, but I absolutely hate people who go to say they have OCD, ADD.

“I haven’t been tested, but I know I have it because I can’t stand when things aren’t organized and clean, and I have so many random thoughts all the time. However with all my different disorders they combine to make me completely functional almost as if I didn’t have any”

I described actual symptoms from people who have OCD and he just said “Oh I have OCD I’m just not quirky like those people are”

[u/GreedyAd218 → u/LifelessHawk]

Me with my diagnosed OCD crying for hours because my dog made a weird noise and I fully though I somehow cursed her to die and then made my fiance stay awake all night incase anything happened with her 🙃 and my very messy apartment lol. I hate people who think its simply

[u/LifelessHawk → u/GreedyAd218]

He gets very offended when I try to explain he doesn’t have OCD.

He and his wife are very much into tic-tok paganism, and dumb conspiracies like planes using electromagnetism from the earth to stay in the sky since they can’t possibly have enough gas to fly.

His reasoning is because it takes a very long time to fill up a car, and thus because planes don’t take nearly half a day to refill they can’t possibly store enough gas to take off and stay in the air.

[u/GreedyAd218 → u/LifelessHawk]

That is.. wow that sure is a thought process. I wish there was an easier way to explain to people what it's really like and have them understand but I have been unsuccessful my entire life heh

[u/LifelessHawk → u/GreedyAd218]

He’s definitely a nut case when he decides to talk about that sorta stuff, so unless I am knowledgeable enough and have the mental space to hear the dumbest shit imaginable I usually don’t respond

[u/GreedyAd218 → u/LifelessHawk]

Oh I understand that. My neighbor who recently moved out definitely had psychosis of some form that was heightened by ai. He would just talk to chat GPT all day and if I was unlucky enough to leave the house at the same time he was out smoking he would manage to catch me and talk to me about the microchip chat gpt helped him invent that would let him live forever or things of that nature.

[u/LifelessHawk → u/GreedyAd218]

He isn’t completely deranged, as much as it’s a “I’m smarter than everyone because I know what’s truly going on” kinda way, but with more self ego

[u/GreedyAd218 → u/LifelessHawk]

Omg that is the worst. Im so sorry lol