I don't think all people who claim to have autism are autistic Anonymous 121061
I know that makes me a bad person, but can't help but feel it. I have autism. I have suffered all kinds of humiliation for being one since I was a child. I can't imagine how they went unnoticed their whole lives, and I really think many just make it up for attention.
I can recognize that I may be speaking from resentment, lack of empathy or envy, but it's something I can't help but feel, as an intuition, and I've always had a wonderful intuition.
Just find it extremely uncomfortable that something that has cost me almost my life, for others is something to make jokes about and be popular, it doesn't sit right with me.
Anonymous 121062
>>121061I agree, but only because I think autism can be overcome. I think this because I studied social dynamics and body language cues, and now find it fairly easy to tell how others are feeling (and I've realised that people """without""" autism have as much empathy/capacity to read others as people """with""" autism, which is to say that they miss the mark regularly or otherwise don't care [cf. sociopathy] that they've missed the mark).
I'm still not great at one-on-one conversations (unless it's someone I like), but I no longer feel anxious about having to spend 30 to 60 minutes with another person.
Anonymous 121327
>>121061I have a friend who always seemed to "cringe" a bit when I'd bring up how I have autism, and it felt to me like she looked down on my special interests. Now a few years later, she has had the realization that she may be autistic and won't stop talking about it. She doesn't have a diagnosis yet but is posting all these quotes about being neurodivergent and has even made it a part of her "quirky aesthetic" somehow.
I don't want to dismiss that she might have it but I can't help but be a bit annoyed.
Anonymous 121328
>>121061Yeah autism has ruined my life, I hate to see how quirky girls with mostly normal lives make autism their whole personality.
Anonymous 121336
>>121061It's the new bipolarity.
99% of normal people with a yesman psy, 1% of people who should get help but can't because of all the posters in the way.
Anonymous 121341
I can't say it went unnoticed though. Undiagnosed but it affected my life in many ways. The issue is that I live in nordic society where mild autismos is somewhat accepted. It's not seen as weird if the child is kinda stunted emotionally. My mom however is a different pile of issues. She is misanthrope so the fact that I was "weird" meant that I was not like shitty normie, angel incarnate, indigo child etc retarded stuff.
