/b/ - Random

Back in the day many many years ago being able to say you’re autistic would rule you out from the diagnosis. This is how much the definitions have shifted.
I think it’s real but because it’s a “spectrum” and the diagnostics are purely behavioral it’s hard to tell at this point who’s really autistic or not, or what it even means to be an autistic.

>>333892
Autism is the new bipolarity.

>>333947
Bipolar was never over diagnosed you might be thinking of bpd

>>333888
I'm a diagnosed autistic woman.
For the most part I dont think my life is that special or diferent from other women, and if it is I just simply don't notice the differences. I was diagnosed earlier than other girls because everyone says that most women get diagnosed until they're adults due to "masking"?
I was diagnosed with Asperger at the age of 8 but I was never told until I became an adult.

For the most part I don't think I ever felt any diferent from other people, and if I am I probably never really noticed or I was never told I was diferent in any significant way.
To this day I'm not really sure what my "autistic traits" are, I guess in an introverted person that likes to repeat her routine every day and be a little sensitive to bright lights and loud noises, but aren't some normal people / neurotypicals like that too? How can someone even measure that?

Look at all the major mass shooters.
Elliot Rodgers
Audrey Hale
Adam Lanza
What do they all have in common? The answer is Autism. What kind of fucked up world do we live where we spend government money on people who kill our children? They don't empathize or feel guilt, they only care about their own immediate desires and if those wants aren't met they lash out.
You know that freak on Twitter with all the disgusting fetishes involving children's cartoon characters being inflated? He has autism.
You know that creepy incel who wants to kill women because they won't date him? He's autistic
You know that retard with no sense of nuance who has to ruin every political discussion with extreme views that don't pertain to reality? Yup, autism.
You don't know it yet, but you've met more people with autism then you may realize. Get to talking to them and they'll tell you all about it. They've been ruining the world for far longer than you think. These are people who don't know what it is to love something more than yourself

>>334197
Who alerted you to get tested for autism and what were your test results do you remember?

>>334271
Only a small number of mass shooters were actually verified autists scrotemonger. Most were neurotypical psychos. They've done extensive studies on this. Its seriously strange you focus so much on autists but no psychopaths and sociopaths. What is this tripe? what are you even doing?

>>334275
There basically isn't any difference between autistic people and psychopaths. Dr's are scared to diagnose the worst spergs with autism because they're worried how it will look, so there's a lot of speds going under the radar. Just look at the most prominent and successful mass shooters and you will notice a pattern.

>>334275
There also more likely to be perverts, pedophiles or to have other paraphilias

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6047840/

>>334271
You sound autistic

>>334281
>>334282
Where is your scientific evidence to back this up? do you just believe any old slop they feed you on facebook old man?

>>334283
He sounds like he fell waaaay down the bullshit pipeline hes probably had a love affair with peter thiel

>>334295
>link a source
>where's you're source? Also you're male
Bruh. The fact that there's women who defend these pedophiles is crazy

>>334300
Go back to florida and take your bath salts so you can make love to swamp reptiles and get arrested the way we know you love to do

>>334197
This is pretty much my experience too. I think I’m “normal enough” to fly under the radar and don’t really know how some of my traits are different than non-autistic people. But same with just having a really strict routine and sensory shit (and sometimes getting a little “too” into talking about weird shit I’m interested in). How is any of that that different than most people though? Idk

>>334301
Go take you're estrogen and shoot up a school you sperg

>>334414
Nta but isn't it testosterone that would make you shoot up a school moid

I'm diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and autism, I think it's just one of those many things that doctors throw around when you don't fit into society, although I've considered that I'm just autistic and I dont have any of those other things. So if you wanna know, I can't really go outside because I'll start crying if I get too stressed, I can't be outside alone because I get confused and scared, I can't drive either because I'll get upset and start crying, for perspective I'm 31 years old and I live with my mom and dad, I just cook dinner and clean the house for them, then I use the computer all day and waste my disability checks on clothes and videogames mostly, it's kinda sad, I had a boyfriend once and thought maybe I'd get the chance to move out and on, but I was too much for him I guess

>>334435
Nah it's autism that makes you shoot up a school

So, autism, at least in girls, is way over diagnosed. This is, in part, because of a broadening of the scope of what autism entails due to a gross oversimplification that does not hold up under developmental models and fMRIs between the various mental disorders.

The real reason behind this is a bit more sinister: it's a systemic cover up of gross abuse in female adolecence (sorry, I can't spell).

If you look at any listing on the symptoms of girls with autism and signs of children who may be experience abuse at the hands of their parents and caretakers, it isn't a mild overlap: it's a 1:1 overlap. PTSD, Autism, Borderline Personality Disorder, and ADHD have major symptomatic overlaps and presentations, but the internal world, causes, and treatments could not be more different. A lot of it stems from emotional neglect and the intense amounts of sexual abuse girls receive at the hands of others. Seriously, go look. Neglect can lead to language developmental difficulties, but it lacks the early onset presentation difficulties that autism comes with.

They label girls with ASD simply because most people do not want to address the elephant in the room.

How many "autistic" girls lack the rigid thinking, language developmental disorders, and emotional deficits that come with ASD? Most.

A few other disorders get mistaken for ASD. Hard of hearing disorders, ADHD, Borderline PD.

>>334281 is half right. Us psychos and autists look very similar from the outside. Most psychiatrists and psychologists will absolutely refuse to diagnose children and teens with an Cluster B personality disorder, even though it becomes VERY apparent what we are around that age. And so, they will usually officially diagnose us with one of two diagnoses: Autism/Aspergers, or ADHD. On my official transcript from the time, I was listed as having ADHD. It changed to BPD later without my knowledge; I stopped being so much of a psycho once I was taken off the ADHD meds too.

So, the increase in ASD diagnoses comes from two directions.
1: Ignoring major abuses to girls via neglect and straight up abuse.
2: Refusing to diagnose "children" with an antisocial disorder.

They choose ASD these days as it's the trendy disorder that is receiving a lot of sympathy, research, and is an acceptable diagnosis that is impossible to treat, like Cluster B disorders.

>>334718
PUT THE GREEN FROG DOWN FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER GOD WE MAY HAVE

>>334719
Stop posting gay shit then

>>334720
I'm not the "psycho" up above, I was SITTING in THREAD and your UGLY PICTURES POPPED UP

>>334718
What, it's true! Autists will absolutely miss the emotions of others because of major empathy deficits. They don't understand how people perceive what they did, or don't understand what is going on. Antisocials will notice or even feel the emotional states of others, we just don't care. This being said, most people actually don't care either, they are very good at lying about having empathy, but their actions betray their subconscious motives every time.

>>334722
>antisocial people don’t care about your feelings that’s why they seem similar to autistics
>but also that’s exactly what most neurotypicals do as well and they also excel at deception (antisocial trait)
You sound like an underage self diagnoser no offense

>>334723
I'm middle aged. Everyone thinks I am younger.

>>333888
it's really cool I love doing puzzles and reading books about things that I like, it's like I can always escape the world

>>333888
I would say autism is underdiagnosed for girls and women. Society is generally more permissive of "quirk chungus" behaviour from women, which results in a lot of neurodivergent girls not getting the help they need because people see them having an episode and just saw "d'aww she's so silly and quirky". not just autism, either.

Being autistic is like being in a foreign country who's rules,culture and language you just don't understand no matter what and constantly having to be on guard as to not offend the locals due to your misunderstanding of culture

Then there's infantalization. My peers who I grow close to automatically end up treating me like I'm a kid. The rest think I'm weird.

Autists have projected autism onto me more than 2 times (different occasions), but I'm neurotypical. Is this something that most autistic people do? I kind of got the impression that because I'm not extremely irritated or rude about autistic behaviour, I'm fated to be assumed as having a "touch of" it. Which is so far from close considering my results on all kinds of tests.

god damn it guys im diagnosed as autist level 1 so aspergers and i hate how im realizing that i was autistic all along.

>>334440
that sounds comfy…looks like the path im heading on..i need to learn how to cook though

>>334787
I'm a level 2 autist. Kneel.