No, that's NOT how Autism Works...

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00:00 But that's not how autism works...

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[imautisticnowwhat]

Which of these opinions do you think is the most ridiculous (and/or scary!)

Hopefully this gives you a bit of a laugh after all the heavier stuff we’ve had recently!



Hope you’ve had a good February and I’ll see you on Sunday! 💛💛💛

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[maidden]

"How high are you?" Not high enough.

[annataymond]

Pregnancy can trigger all sorts of health and psychiatric conditions, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a case where it cures them.

[laurencewinch-furness]

I'm often told I "don't seem to be autistic anymore". I've learnt to fit in, I'm sure my brain is still wired differently!

[GarnetHeartIllustrations]

“Will do sexual things in exchange for toys/games” that’s a horrifying bullet point. That feels like simultaneous infantilization and objectification, like they don’t care about the person, but rather getting sex whenever they want, so they like the idea of easily bribing a person into sex. That’s so creepy and horrible and vile

[weikel]

on the "neurotypicals assuming they know what autism is without any actual knowledge"... Anytime I tell a male friend that I think I'm autistic they respond with "I think everyone is at least a little autistic"....not how that works and also feels like I'm being patronized a bit and dismissed, fun after having my doctor totally dismiss my desire to get diagnosed.

[TinyGhosty]

"How high are you on the spectrum?" sounds like a question a stoner would ask their autistic stoner friend, wondering if smoking the flower differs between neurotype lol

[hijidltkr]

"a-holes who use it as an excuse for their lack of social skills" is such a frustrating sentence that i always get met with!!! just because you have an easy time with it doesn't mean that others will be the same. even if you make the claim that people can work on it, it's no use if you judge people for not being good at it or don't give someone the patience and understanding they need

in the first place i feel like it should be OK to not have the best social skills in the world. the constant demand when it comes to wanting you to pick up on things, read the room, read under the lines and other things is just so tiring and frustrating when you really just feel like you can't 😭 it's like being stuck at a math problem your brain just can't figure out and you end up crying, 'cause you're pressured to solve it quickly on your own while never having been taught it

[gone]

I told someone I'm diagnosed with aspergers and he replied (in an attempt to be supportive) "oh you know, everyone would be diagnosed with something if they just went to get checked!" and my instant response was to take it literally and so I replied along the lines of "no that would mean the medical system is flawed and not serving it's function". It's been YEARS and I only just recently realized people don't actually mean it literally and are essentially trying to say "everyone has their quirks and that's ok" and they don't literally think "everyone would get diagnosed"... I both feel stupid and like I cracked some secret code and levelled up.

[HotTakeAndy]

The “I’m in the medical field” clip will never not be funny. 😆

[somedaywriting]

Thought you might be interested:

Autism has hit the local news in my area. There was apparently a sharp up in kids with autism or likely to have autism (their words, not mine) being kicked out of daycare. The section was more about how the daycare system isn't equipped to handle the perceived rowdiness of autistic kids and how they are failing the autistic community.

[catluvr]

Yeah, my dad was diagnosed right after I was diagnosed.
He thought that a lot of my responses seemed "familiar".

[dead]

On the "women can have more childlike interests", I feel like this neglects to point out that masculine interests just don't get aged. If a man is into football at a young age and stays that way into adulthood it's not seen as childish, same with other "masculine" things like cars, robots, and even figurine modeling/making, ect. Men get to continue to enjoy their childhood interests, it is only when something is seen as feminine that it is also childish for one to keep enjoying it. Doll collecting comes to mind for me; Even if it's art dolls or antiques (which children maybe shouldn't be playing with), it's seen as childish to have dolls.

[a.s.]

That pregnancy helped you realise your autistic, because you didn't have the energy to mask, resonated a lot with me. The point at which I connected all the dots was when I became chronically ill, because like you, I just did not have any shred of energy left to keep on pushing through.

[matthewreese]

Worse than your favorite product being discontinued, is that when they subtlety change the design so you don't know until it's too late

[sketchiscribblr]

Now, ive been told by family that if i ever decide to get tubes tied or hysterectomy or whatever- that if im up front about my autism and frame it as 'i dont want to pass this to the next generation' that a doctor would be less likely to refuse to do it even if im still in my 20s, because thats an issue people have when seeking out permanent birth control.
Always felt kinda eugenics-y, throwing around a condition in that context, but i do feel the sentiment. I have a lot of health issues that i would not want a hypothetical child that i would presumably love and care about to have to go through their life struggling with the way ive struggled.

[Sincrly]

Maybe the true autism is the friends we made along the way

[s.q.-e]

My oldest son was diagnosed Autistic, and as the doctor was describing the whole checklist, my wife said "Yeah, you just described my husband." So I got tested, as a 31 yr old adult, and I was diagnosed too.

[Solo.Dissonance]

Regarding pregnancy "taking problems away", my mom would definitely beg to differ. Her pregnancy with me triggered an autoimmune condition, and that's apparently not rare...also, a staggering amount of women still die due to pregnancy complications (at least, in the US), so...

[marlyd]

As someone who gets the weirdest responses to me being childfree, yes, society in general just wants women to procreate.