Oh 1000% people being like “I’m just a lil neurospicy lolll” like shut the actual fuck up

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— someone who struggles with the less “aesthetic” parts of autism and whose special interests don’t align with popular fandoms. I understand that self-diagnosis can be an important tool for many genuinely seeking better self-understanding, but I ALSO worry that some people are “self-diagnosing” without actually taking the diagnostic criteria into account.* You can be really passionate about something and like fidget toys and NOT be autistic. It’s a disability not a quirky personality trait.

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Yeah and it’s always so over the top like it’ll show the person as childish when that makes up a slim minority of people that actually have autism

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I think it’s normal to be irked by infantalization Especially on tiktok it’s so rampant Uck

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the rampant infantilization is so aggravating bc low support individuals like myself have to fight even harder to be taken seriously. my non-autistic brother got to get his permit at 15 and his license at 16, but my parents refused to let me get mine bc they thought my dx meant i “wouldn’t be responsible enough.” my cousin helped me with it after I turned 18; now guess which one of my mom’s kids has an accident-free/ticket-free record? hint: not my brother lmao

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yes absolutely. it pisses me off so much

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I have a friend who tried to relate to me (i have adhd) and i shit u not he did it by showing me (in person) one of those reels titled “this noise calms you and ur adhd brain” and its a brown noise thats made to bait watchtime and views. I looked at him speechless i said it sure af wasnt working on me 100 felt like he was looking for me to validade his “adhd”

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I think it’s mostly people trying to cope with nerodivergency being hard. Still, it’s important to have tough conversations

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