Why is everything autism?
Right?? I don’t understand why every single person nowadays supposedly has autism and ADHD. If everyone has autism and/or ADHD now, then does anyone really have it?
Imo, it doesn’t really make sense to turn what are normal human experiences suddenly into disorders now because it’s trendy. If it significantly impairs functioning to the point of things like failing out of school or the inability to hold down a job, then it makes sense to discuss it. Otherwise, I don’t get why it’s so trendy to pathologize common experiences/traits.
tbf its a spectrum. literally almost everyone has at least some traits and its kinda hard to draw a line (and theres no “proper” diagnosis process for autism like theres is for e.g. adhd)
A lost of things are a spectrum, that’s hardly unique to autism. Say arachnophobia. It’s only considered a disorder once the fear is big enough it’s interfering in your life, not if you’re slightly uneasy around spiders.
Because there are new frontiers to the discovery. I was not aware of the spectrum growing up and was never questioned. But I have many common traits with certain spectrums. Doesn’t mean I have anything. Doesn’t mean I don’t. I haven’t been professionally examined. But it didn’t seem to be as well known as it is now. If a kid truly is on the spectrum, they can know they aren’t alone. Which many of these things can make a kid feel totally alone. So that’s a few reasons.
Participation / selection bias. People who have autism or who struggle to fit in socially are more likely to spend more time making content than normal people.
Why should I experience “common experiences / traits” when medication helps? You don’t need your leg to be chopped off before you can take a painkiller.
Because everyone has it
It took 272 times in a row to get it right. That’s what we call woodshedding.
I just like the song, okay?
lol, having a favorite song that you listen to a lot isn’t “autism”
Lol, people on Lemmy thinking they’re not on the spectrum.
Just because you think something is normal doesn’t make it normal. You’re strange. You’re here.
Not every strangeness is an autism sign.
Yeah I don’t need autism to tell me trains are pretty awesome
That’s very true. But there’s also a pretty high correlation between neurodivergence (all kinds) and your Linux using, privacy focused, d&d playing, edm and metal listening, caffeine addicted, geeks.
Not every rectangle is a square, but the front door to Lemmy sure is pretty square shaped.
Thank you. Some people are just weird. It’s not a sign of anything other than that. Not everyone fits in a box, and that doesn’t mean they’re suffering from any kind of disorder or syndrome or any other kind of thing.
But an awful lot of people listen to songs hundreds even thousands of times. That’s totally normal. It just means you like it.
This is pretty rude to be honest and I can’t believe rhetoric like this gets voted up.
This trivializes all parties, steers people in wrong directions and generally is just actual unwarranted or wanted, fake medical advice.
Sorry, I have trouble identifying when I’m being rude. To me it just seems like obvious pattern matching.
It’s hardly trivial though. It’s not like I’m sitting here undiagnosed and spouting nonsense. This is my life. And it’s not hard to see myself in many other people here.
It gets upvoted because those people feel seen and represented. Which is nice for once. To be welcome someplace as a person and not infantalized or shunned.
And yes, if I start giving medical advice please call me out. But this ain’t that.
yeah the other guy seems pretty rude to me, but what do i know, i have autism. which is why I’m here and not on reddit…
Foucault needs a word.
Apparently when Kendrick dropped “Not Like Us” he gave people autism 🤔
Well you can hear the same song on repeat 272 times and not be autistic, but as far as I can tell, this could be one of the diagnostic criteria.
From time to time, there’s some new K-pop that my wife goes crazy over, and every single car ride after that will have that song playing multiple times. It’s not on loop only because I would consider throwing us off a cliff if the playlist didn’t have at least 19 other songs on it. :)
OK, so you’ve clearly never had kids. Kids, generally, love hearing some song they like hundreds of times over and over. There’s probably no parent in the last 10 or so years that isn’t sick to death of hearing Bluey songs. That does not automatically make there was kids autistic. Yes, often adults like to do this too. It just means that you like the song or whatever else you’re watching or listening to.
If anything, it might be classified as slightly neurotic or a little bit obsessive. But it has nothing to do with autism.
Jack Hartmann might be my wife’s nemesis.
Autism is liking things.
I has 'tism cause I like dis song ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
And I thought I was doing well on that front…
🤘 666 minutes, that’s metal! 🤘
oof I did quick maths on last years top song for me and it was almost 2k minutes
In a row or just… Over time? 🤔
Most songs I like I have listened to at least 500 or more times. But only a handful have been listened to 500 times in a row.
It is like incredibly normal to do that. Everybody I know does it.
wait, it isn’t? it’s like one of my favorite things to do in the world. Choose a song and listen to it hundreds of times
That’s far more normal than you think. I have TV shows and movies that I also like which I’ve seen hundreds of times. That’s not “autism”, that’s just liking something. You know, a lot.
me when YouTube recommendeds this for the 27th time today
Sleep Token rules though, so I guess thats fine
Worship.
It is normal! Fight me bitch.
how am I supposed to practice it and learn it?
Googles: how to get good at autism
Who is the current autism champion?
I know, right? I’m pretty sure even at Brandon Toews’ level, you have to run through whatever it is a lot to get it. Dude’s a beast though.
It’s funny how autistic people are so different. This is definitely seen as an autism trait, yet I’m autistic and I get bored of listening to something multiple times quite quickly. I require variation. Hearing a song 10 times in a week is already pushing it
I am ASD and have ADHD, so very often things like this kinda even out. The autism side wants to stay forever, while the ADHD side wants something new every 10 seconds. Which results in looking somewhat normal for very not normal reasons.
it took me hearing from adults with diagnosis for it to finally land that the popular conception of autism is very limited.
turn the TV off turn the TV off
Shit gets crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious Crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious
