Autism

[Philosophy Zombie]

so everyone talks about autism in a derogatory manner, but since we already have threads on depression and anxiety and being a loveshy and other mental conditions where everyone is talking so politely, and half our userbase is autists anyway, i thought that we're finally at a point where we're ready for this discussion.

i was diagnosed definitively when i was nine? memories are pretty hazy and i barely remember any of it. there were a couple years where i thought of it all the time, but then i realized that it's not a big deal, no one cares.

i'm sort of insecure about it, but now aspergers is less like a personal demon that eats at me constantly and more like a regular old attribute that embarrasses me, like an ugly birthmark, if you know what i mean?

what are your all's thoughts on autism?

 

[AA 102]

what are your all's thoughts

You're autistic.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

You're trying a little too hard to be Dynastia with this one.

 

[VJ 120]

We all knew you were autistic long before you came out of the autismal closet, fam.

 

[Aquinas]

Hi, I'm MildChild.

 

[Locksnap]

You're trying a little too hard to be Dynastia with this one.

Except that PZ was literally diagnosed with autism when she was 9 and even has the papers to prove it lol
Now stop trying to be Dynastia.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I think that autism was severely overdiagnosed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

 

[Hat]

i was diagnosed definitively when i was nine? memories are pretty hazy and i barely remember any of it. there were a couple years where i thought of it all the time, but then i realized that it's not a big deal, no one cares.

I care that you have autism.

 

[Joan Nyan]

I might have a little autism.

 

[kidsquid]

I have deep fried autism.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I have autism in the sense I can be EXTREMELY specific about just about everything. Just about everything around the damned globe.

Eureka!

 

[MW 002]

In all seriousness? My younger brother has autism and he drives me up the fucking wall with how he uses it to excuse shitty behaviour- don't expect to have a normal conversation with him because he will end up diverting it to talk about Persona, Magic the Gathering, Jojos Bizzare Adventure, Undertale, Yugioh 5D or Gods of Egypt- those are the only things he ever wants to talk about. He'll talk about these things for hours on end, as if he thinks he's some YouTuber that rambles on for hours like an autistic.

He's also rude and never lets other people talk in a conversation, making him extremely obnoxious to most people (even his friends find this trait of his to be infuriating). His lack of social awareness is stemmed from the fact that he will not interact with any non-autistic; because Normies won't put up with his nonsense like other autistics do.

I was so glad when my supervisors stopped giving him hours at work because of his need to argue with coworkers on just about -anything- and -everything- no matter how minor it is; he hasn't been given hours for two months now and is only just starting to figure out that the issue is him, nor other people.

At one point he flipped out on the supervisor over the positioning of a fucking desk! Then there was the time he lashed out at a female coworker over something to do with comic books for not knowing something apparently... Or some shit like that.

Did I mention that he's also 20?

 

[Joan Nyan]

He'll talk about these things for hours on end, as if he thinks he's some YouTuber that rambles on for hours like an autistic.

Tell him to make a YouTube account and ramble about bullshit nobody cares about, I hear it's big money these days.

 

[AnOminous]

In all seriousness? My younger brother has autism and he drives me up the fucking wall with how he uses it to excuse shitty behaviour- don't expect to have a normal conversation with him because he will end up diverting it to talk about Persona, Magic the Gathering, Jojos Bizzare Adventure, Undertale, Yugioh 5D or Gods of Egypt- those are the only things he ever wants to talk about. He'll talk about these things for hours on end, as if he thinks he's some YouTuber that rambles on for hours like an autistic.

He should get in on the ground floor of the next super autistic fandom and be a dick on YouTube all day long. He could be the next Mr. [REDACTED].

 

[feedtheoctopus]

My position on autistic people is the same as it is for everyone else. I don't give a fuck what you do, what you're obsessions are, what your hangups are, or anything else, so long as you're not a fucking dick

 

[TowinKarz]

That's what it boils down to for me. I can be patient and understanding, right up until they're trying to follow me into the bathroom to keep telling me about that time they pooped themselves.... I do NOT have the time to suffer someone who's socially defective and refuses to even TRY and fix it.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

In all seriousness? My younger brother has autism and he drives me up the fucking wall with how he uses it to excuse shitty behaviour- don't expect to have a normal conversation with him because he will end up diverting it to talk about Persona, Magic the Gathering, Jojos Bizzare Adventure, Undertale, Yugioh 5D or Gods of Egypt- those are the only things he ever wants to talk about. He'll talk about these things for hours on end, as if he thinks he's some YouTuber that rambles on for hours like an autistic.

He's also rude and never lets other people talk in a conversation, making him extremely obnoxious to most people (even his friends find this trait of his to be infuriating). His lack of social awareness is stemmed from the fact that he will not interact with any non-autistic; because Normies won't put up with his nonsense like other autistics do.

I was so glad when my supervisors stopped giving him hours at work because of his need to argue with coworkers on just about -anything- and -everything- no matter how minor it is; he hasn't been given hours for two months now and is only just starting to figure out that the issue is him, nor other people.

At one point he flipped out on the supervisor over the positioning of a fucking desk! Then there was the time he lashed out at a female coworker over something to do with comic books for not knowing something apparently... Or some shit like that.

Did I mention that he's also 20?

This is why we should abort retarded fetuses

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

Except that PZ was literally diagnosed with autism when she was 9 and even has the papers to prove it lol
Now stop trying to be Dynastia.

oh ok. I didn't mean to be insensitive to @Philosophy whatever the fuck that last letter in her name is, I apologize.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

Sorry for double posting.

 

[H3LLH4MM3R666]

I was diagnosed with aspergers at 14, a term which is falling out of favor. Now they're just "high-functioning" or on the spectrum

Anyway I rejected all treatment and medication, feeling that I was special and my inability to talk to people being just part of my personality and perfectly healthy. Then I became an adult and realized that it's just making life harder. So now I smoke a lot of weed.

Still don't have any friends, but I code for a living now and I don't care.

Anyway the best way to describe being on the spectrum is having a sort of "mind-blindedness". One's social decisions are determined by their understanding of what other people are currently feeling. But when everyone looks like a blank entity then it becomes impossible to know how to act. I feel bad for most lolcows because they're literally incapable of figuring out what other people are seeing or thinking. But they don't want to do anything to compensate, there's a ton of literature spelling out social thinking to people who need to be told things like "OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHTS IN THEIR HEADS"

But each generation is getting more self-centered and mentally isolated than the last. Now I think social thinking should be a standard subject.