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Study says Autists who hide what they are by trying to appear normal experience depression and sads because they can't spergout. Reddit throws a bitchfit, as usual, because no one has ever had to pretend they were/weren't something to fit in before Aspies were invented. (archive.ph)
posted 3 years ago by GeneralBoobs 3 years ago by GeneralBoobs +33 / -0
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– APDSmith 26 points 3 years ago +26 / -0

... you know what?

There's a decent chance I'm an Aspie. My brother too. Neither one of us has ever gone for a diagnosis, because what does it matter? I still have rent to pay, still have kids to look after. Still need to work.

What about my life would be improved by getting a diagnosis, let alone pandering to me moping around feeling sorry for myself ... ?

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– OBRIENMUSTSUFFER 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I think they give you a set of cards that you can hand out to people whenever there’s a misunderstanding.

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– APDSmith 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

I work in IT. Most of my day is being misunderstood anyway...

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– GeneralBoobs [S] 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

Retarddit for the lolz.

For the record, yes, I am a genuine Sperg, got my gub mints diagnosis, and am not just some pathetic bitch on tumblr/tik tok looking for attention. I mean, I am pathetic. And I like attention. But I don't have a tik tok account.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

For the record, yes, I am a genuine Sperg, got my gub mints diagnosis,

I don't say this to be insulting, but...

that explains so much

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– TheKidsAreAltRight 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

Probably applies to a lot of people here all things considered.

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– GeneralBoobs [S] 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Believe me I know I know. Imagine having to have dealt with this for 40 years like my parents.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

I mean, all you really need to do is work on your post titles. Keep it brief, leave the commentary for the comments section. Then you'd merely be as autistic as the rest of us.

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– SomeRando 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

You know what will also make you experience depression and sads? Getting shoved into a locker because it's funny to fuck with the kid who flaps his arms when he's happy and won't shut up about pokemon.

Another way is being completely unrelatable as an adult, and treated like a subhuman because of it. Pretty big fuckin' sads right there, bad enough, that damned unbridgeable gap - now imagine if your parents let your stimming run on tap like my first example.

What they're suggesting is a complete social abortion for fretting over a few cracked eggs and hurt feelings - the splits hurt for some people more than others and so does fitting in/not being the target of hard ostracism. Nobody in your adult life wants to hear about your sonic OC and that is a fact of life. Shit's how lolcows like Chris Chan are made.

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– SomeRando 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Basically, my whole life I have been fucked, heavily medicated, diagnosed with every single trendy mental illness on the menu. I have been in the same prototypal social skills classes as many the worse off autistics and I have seen some shit - many times I have had to look out for them being the somewhat normal one, or what passed for normal. I don't think I had a choice but to blend in and not really break character infront of normies because I had to stick up for them.

The ways they got fucked with was pretty brutal and it really wasn't fair. Some of them you just couldn't fix, nothing you could really do; some were just prone to being fucked with. The arm flapping thing is real, some of them were just that out there. Others kind of brought it on themselves but understanding the condition they probably didn't know better, but I dunno... I got beat up and slapped around so much early on that I guess I put on a good enough show to get a pass and knew when I was the punchline of someone else's joke and not IN on it. I grew up in the ghetto - many of the others grew up in cushy, coddled places where they could rattle off about their pokemon fixation with neigh impunity and were totally unprepared for the fuckedness of the social hierachies outside of gradeschool.

You smash an autistic kid's head into a wall and everyone fucking laughs. It's perfectly fine seemingly. No one cares about you. You don't have that "it" to them and probably never will.

I have seen what people who've had it worse have been through and where they've ended up. I am one of the last ones alive or not in some kind of institutionalized/familial care.

Myself, I feel it every interaction, that lack of "it" required to be fully understood as a human being. I've always had to be top of the hierarchy or not part of it at all, though strangely enough I get along with Eastern Europeans and Poles just fine, post-soviet countries have been very kind and I feel at no deficit among them.

Now, does it hurt to pretend to be normal? Compared to what I might have been if I had no leash on my interests, haha, no. No I would have gotten it so much worse.

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– SomeRando 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I'm always around for shits and giggles, and don't mind the consultation because I feel that many here are kindred regardless of what their estrangements to the mainline may be, normie or not.

must've really fucked with ya head huh?

As the alpha autist and defacto tard wrangler I guess I was naturally bestowed responsibility somewhat early. It wasn't always so bad, because I lowkey liked a lot of what a lot if them liked.

I guess I am one of the few who it kind of worked out for. It could have been a lot worse, and everytime I think I have it bad - I think of all those I carried through. I think of those I helped along the way thereafter and my burdens aren't so heavy. I thrive under pressure and I'll carry the next guy's load too.

I carry many proverbial tattered banners and bloodied flags. And here we are, at the edge of the world, with little else.

it some times feels like i am. like sometimes when i can't comprehend what someone is saying. and i'm just lost. but everyone else knows what that person is talking about but me.

You sound like someone I knew, fella had ADHD - had a hard time with processing things but was otherwise a solid person. A lot of people got this going on with them and don't always know until much later. It's an unfortunate thing.

And don't sweat it man, I ain't in the business of judging and hope I don't drone on too much, certainly didn't intend to weave a sob story because I'm not about that.

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– SomeRando 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

oh yeah i forgot to ask but. how was your home life? if you can go into more detail.

Averting the longwinded crybaby story, shambles for the most part. Generally unsupportive, no father, poor/middleclass/poor-again/dirt-poor, etc.

That said, a lot of life growing up was improvisation. It's kind of why I feel less than compelled by intersectionally relevant argumentation, almost in a fateful way - I've seen just about everything there is to see firsthand that most of the lavish middleclass socialists preach about from on high as if I haven't.

I don't think they know the first thing about discrimination, hilariously relevant - since it's perfectly socially acceptable to discriminate against people with autism, almost openly.

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– SoctaticMethod1 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

So we should give them all 4chan/8chan accounts?

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– SoctaticMethod1 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Yeah but also seeing what would happen if we weaponised ALL the autism...

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– TheKidsAreAltRight 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

Create a singularity of seekers and find Madeleine McCann.

Or birth a Chaos God.

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– Streetshame 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I vote for the latter

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