That's ewhy I was trying to define it down without using The Dreaded R Word. Putting useful but oddball evolutionary variances under "autism" is very disengenuous, I think, and came exactly from the defenders of the brain-dead droolers. I have known for a long time that "science" is extremely biased/apolagetic/double-standarded when it comes to humans ... fucking Gould was a stand-out example of that. (He'd probably be crowing on the one hand about how "puncutated equilibrium" has more or less been proving itself (or at least, that evolution can happen at the sub-species level a lot faster than originally postulated), but on the other still insisting that humans haven't had enough time to produce biological races on the other.)
Anyway, speaking of which, anyone else think that Social Media Challenges are someone setting Darwinian Retard Traps? The newest one is apparently "cooking chicken in Ny-Quil". Who would even think of that? And how does someone not stop and consider how dumb that is - unless they're in a whole crowd of "friends" yelling "do it do it do it"?
On your earlier point, I lived with a (very toxic, self-destructive) girl once who insisted “we’re all on the spectrum”, and wouldn’t budge from this idea, despite one of our other flatmates being like a walking stereotype of “high functioning autism”, lol…
But yeah, as a result of having a really fucked-up life, and probably some symptoms of ADHD (even that is arguable), I have, at times, thought I may be either narcissistic, or autistic, or even both…
Hindsight would suggest that I was just… Immature, lacking in experience, and in a couple of pretty toxic relationships (hence my ex calling me a narcissist, while doing… Some pretty narcissistic things herself), but I lacked the self-confidence/esteem to see that, and began to… “Pathologize” myself. To think “What is wrong with me? How can this be happening to me, again..?”
I can see, as a result, how other people fall into that trap. Particularly young people. Particularly with the rise of internet “self diagnosis” and the whole field of psychology being co-opted…
I honestly think the best… “Solution” is not to seek a label or a diagnosis (though YMMV, of course), but to change your life circumstance, and see whether that produces a change in your mental state/functioning.
It’s what “worked” for me, anyway. Though I still have a long way to go. If I ever get there.
I think Down’s Syndrome is probably a better example of this, but yea, I agree…
Autism has become super, super broadly defined, to the point of massively watering down the definition…
Non-verbal/non-functional autism, though? Absolutely, I agree…
But then, there’s a lot of “conditions” that could essentially be bred out of society, if we went down that path…
Somehow I doubt that will happen, though, any time soon.
That's ewhy I was trying to define it down without using The Dreaded R Word. Putting useful but oddball evolutionary variances under "autism" is very disengenuous, I think, and came exactly from the defenders of the brain-dead droolers. I have known for a long time that "science" is extremely biased/apolagetic/double-standarded when it comes to humans ... fucking Gould was a stand-out example of that. (He'd probably be crowing on the one hand about how "puncutated equilibrium" has more or less been proving itself (or at least, that evolution can happen at the sub-species level a lot faster than originally postulated), but on the other still insisting that humans haven't had enough time to produce biological races on the other.)
Anyway, speaking of which, anyone else think that Social Media Challenges are someone setting Darwinian Retard Traps? The newest one is apparently "cooking chicken in Ny-Quil". Who would even think of that? And how does someone not stop and consider how dumb that is - unless they're in a whole crowd of "friends" yelling "do it do it do it"?
Peer pressure is a funny thing, unfortunately…
On your earlier point, I lived with a (very toxic, self-destructive) girl once who insisted “we’re all on the spectrum”, and wouldn’t budge from this idea, despite one of our other flatmates being like a walking stereotype of “high functioning autism”, lol…
But yeah, as a result of having a really fucked-up life, and probably some symptoms of ADHD (even that is arguable), I have, at times, thought I may be either narcissistic, or autistic, or even both…
Hindsight would suggest that I was just… Immature, lacking in experience, and in a couple of pretty toxic relationships (hence my ex calling me a narcissist, while doing… Some pretty narcissistic things herself), but I lacked the self-confidence/esteem to see that, and began to… “Pathologize” myself. To think “What is wrong with me? How can this be happening to me, again..?”
I can see, as a result, how other people fall into that trap. Particularly young people. Particularly with the rise of internet “self diagnosis” and the whole field of psychology being co-opted…
I honestly think the best… “Solution” is not to seek a label or a diagnosis (though YMMV, of course), but to change your life circumstance, and see whether that produces a change in your mental state/functioning.
It’s what “worked” for me, anyway. Though I still have a long way to go. If I ever get there.