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The difference would be about whether it's sensory overload vs a desire to punish or destroy to avenge your ego. Men with autism can develop NPD traits (and BPD traits) as a coping mechanism for not being able to socially navigate, basically it's not them that's inferior it's everyone else.On the topic of BPD, I think a lot of the more severe symptoms (especially when it comes to poor emotional regulation, splitting and what not)… shit reminds me of what autistic males do when they are having troubles with gaming.
Whose to say that autistic women are being misdiagnosed due to the perception that autism in women is “rare”?
There's some neurological research conducted recently that suggests autism is underdiagnosed in women, with the difference in diagnosis being that autistic women want to fit but can't, meaning they'll attempt to mask and autistic men just don't try very hard to fit in at all and expect other people to cater to them. Masking as a concept is controversial though because people think that if you can mask why do you need a diagnosis, but really you could make the same argument for high-functioning depressives and autism is also very comorbid with suicide; I do think it's just people griping about new changes being new and also, that it's women getting the focus.
Autistic people have some neurological traits like different synaptic connections and dopamine release/response that shows up on brain scans, so you can do brain scans to prove autism exists in women but it's not financially viable to use it as a diagnostic method. Basically autistic people feel empathy, but cannot mirror it back to normal people in the expected way because their mirror neurons connect differently than in NT people. There's a concept called the Double Empathy Problem that suggests that it's happening in both directions and that NT people don't display what feels like genuine empathy to autistic people either, which would explaining a lot of autistic whining about normies and phoneys and so on. That the two different brain types have two totally different expectations of what sympathy, comfort, love looks like via body language. Autistics can learn what the 'correct' cues are from being around neurotypical people (to an extent), but if you shoved a bunch of autistic people on an island together they'd probably develop a system of body language and emotional expression very different from current expectations.
Personality disorders are basically arrested development and generally improve with age because the brain is neuroplastic (if the patient works at it; Elon Musk for example is never improving) but they're basically a deeply ingrained maladaptation to an extremely dysfunctional early environment. Also there's a genetic trend. So you can have autism and NPD, and a lot of autistic moids do because it seems like when a lot of their parents learn they have autism they just stop bothering to parent their kids. Lots of parents still see their kids as investments and if you're not going to get a return on your investment...
(disclaimer: I've worked in the health service and adjacent to patients with autism and personality disorders, but I am NOT a medical professional. I am explaining things how they have been explained to me or that I've read about them.)
Autistic people have some neurological traits like different synaptic connections and dopamine release/response that shows up on brain scans, so you can do brain scans to prove autism exists in women but it's not financially viable to use it as a diagnostic method. Basically autistic people feel empathy, but cannot mirror it back to normal people in the expected way because their mirror neurons connect differently than in NT people. There's a concept called the Double Empathy Problem that suggests that it's happening in both directions and that NT people don't display what feels like genuine empathy to autistic people either, which would explaining a lot of autistic whining about normies and phoneys and so on. That the two different brain types have two totally different expectations of what sympathy, comfort, love looks like via body language. Autistics can learn what the 'correct' cues are from being around neurotypical people (to an extent), but if you shoved a bunch of autistic people on an island together they'd probably develop a system of body language and emotional expression very different from current expectations.
Personality disorders are basically arrested development and generally improve with age because the brain is neuroplastic (if the patient works at it; Elon Musk for example is never improving) but they're basically a deeply ingrained maladaptation to an extremely dysfunctional early environment. Also there's a genetic trend. So you can have autism and NPD, and a lot of autistic moids do because it seems like when a lot of their parents learn they have autism they just stop bothering to parent their kids. Lots of parents still see their kids as investments and if you're not going to get a return on your investment...
(disclaimer: I've worked in the health service and adjacent to patients with autism and personality disorders, but I am NOT a medical professional. I am explaining things how they have been explained to me or that I've read about them.)
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