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Holy fuck this is fucked lol.
Y'all forgot real fucking 10 of 10 on the spectrum with adult violent outbursts and literally chaining down folks autism exists?
This whole, your grandfather has trains and was autistic hurr hurr is terrible and just making people more ignorant to challenges people face.
Yeah autism isn't all "lol I totes have autism because I like stuff" it can be a LOT more debilitating.
One can finally be made to work somewhat easily within capitalism.
It has been
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Days since the Internet forgot that profound autism exists.
It's weird because terminally online people forget that profound autism exists but most irl people I talk to have no concept of autism besides profound autism.
Otoh, I think most people irl and online think of ADHD as quirky distracted ball of energy meanwhile severe ADHD is not actually seen as a disability but a personal failing or mistaken for the classic depression+anxiety combo.
Absolutely! I think this disconnect is such a big part on why conversations about diagnosis rates, prevention, and treatment break down.
I honestly believe the dsm5 should have kept Asperger's as a separate diagnosis than pooling all ASD together.
This is the internet. You can say fuck. Fuck fuckety fuck fuck.
People who complain about censorship sound like fucking morons. Every single censored post is censored because they come from platforms with algorithms, and those algorithms demote posts with certain words, like fuck. That's it. That's why the censorship exists.
If you don't like it, post your own shit. Now that you know, will you shut the fuck up about the censorship? Your complaints are more annoying than the actual censorship.
How would you like to see the school counselor?
How would you like to suck my balls?
What did you say?!
Is that an offer?
Fuckity fuck fuck
Fuckity fuck fuck
Look at that fuckstick go
Fucking aye
You can also chose to not say it, if you don't want to :)
Fck fuuuuuk fkfkfk
True, but here someone chose to say fuck and someone else said "nah, that's too vulgar!"
Fuck censorship.
Because the fascists needed a few scapegoats and they chose immigrants, trans, and autism.
I think ADHD was skipped because it's harder to say, and don't fit into their fiery speeches.
I mean RFK literally said he wanted to put people with ADHD into concentration camps
And the most funny thing is 'fixing' autism, with medicine.
Autism got rolled in because the child abuser, disbarred doctor, scam artist, and fraudulent researcher Andrew Wakefield claimed vaccines caused autism and just about the entire Anglophone mainstream media spent years framing it as a dramatic story of a defiant doctor speaking out against the tyrannical scientific community. Often accompanied by videos of ~~autistic children being overstimulated by the presence of a camera crew and being made to melt down for the camera~~ the tragic horror of having to raise an autistic child.
This massively boosted antivax conspiracist subculture to the point of it being a significant electoral demographic. Billionaires then paid grifters to align them with greater alt-right conspiracism culture so they would vote far-right. Autism naturally slots into the untermensch role, with vaccination being analogized to blood libel.
So ADHD wasn't skipped, fascists just didn't have an ADHD-hating subculture to court.
We shall one day rule the world.
Which is which? Cause they've both fallen into either category.
I think ADHD is often seen as annoying kids and not taken seriously while autism is viewed as otherworldly and caused by vaccines. There are no conspiracy theories where ADHD comes from, just that it's diagnosed too often
The conspiracy theory is that liberal doctors are testing new world order mind control drugs on your kids, with ADHD as a made up excuse. The kids are just lazy and irresponsible weaklings, of course.
I've never considered neuro-atypicality as any sort of disease, I think in order to do that you would have to delude yourself as to the functionality of your average neurotypical.
Not a disease, but a disorder. When it gets to the point where its hard to keep a job or even friends because you're forgetful, distracted, demand avoidance, struggling with hygiene etc. it can get to a point where life becomes needlessly difficult. It's not that neurotypicals don't show any of these behaviours, but it's to a manageble degree.
When it gets to that point, perhaps, but the barest definition of Autism or ADHD are not indicative of that. They're umbrella and blanket terms for a wide swath of people.
Another thing is that while some would qualify for assistance in finding homes and jobs; many of them are simply a poor fit for the environment they find themselves in, could thrive more easily in a different situation.
Because 50% of Americans are either really fucking stupid or assholes, or both. That's literally the only reason.
Correct. It really must be an american thing. The rest of the world mostly takes both divergences seriously. But we also don't get measles, so that's that 😁
The worst part of it is that there are no visual cues to any of it at all. So because you look happen to normal, you’re expected to BE normal.
One has people hyper fixated on things, the other makes people easily distracted by shiny things?
Hyper focus is an explicit trait of adhd where they have very intense focus on one single topic.
Also consider
Combination of both diagnosis is not uncommon and there is even a pattern where high level at functional masking autistic people get an adhd diagnosis in school long before autism is “discovered” in adulthood.
It has heen proposed that adhd, just like some other neurodivergences (ocd, dyslexia,..) should technically all belong on the autism spectrum, they are all about “the brains network of neurons being build in a non typical way”, which is also why everyone is still unique, but doing so would make it harder to medically label the specific needs of the more challenging forms of autism that need that label to get appropriate help.
Yup. I know I have ADHD. I suspect I have some autism as well. I specifically told my therapist I don't want to test for autism, and she agreed with rfks attacks. If I have some autism, it's very light. But my ADHD is rather heavy. Like, it's hard for me to make myself do much, but my proclivity to not want to touch canvas isn't that big of a deal.