idk why but a pattern I see a lot in my personal life is that
>people with late autism diagnosis
completely flip their behavior after the diagnosis. they stop masking altogether. they will start wearing sunglasses indoors, and will rather walk 10km instead of going in a loud crowded bus, and stop entertaining social games. if people get weirded out by the tism they just shrug and end the conversation.
meanwhile
>people with late adhd diagnosis
get this notion that their symptoms are not merely preferences or a personality thing and that it is a burden that ought to be purged. they get this drive to become "normal" no matter what, whatever it costs. they will grit their teeth, bite their lip, and jump through hoops to mimic neurotypicals. the self-hatred is insane
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65 posts and 7 image replies omitted.>>736761classic neurotypical response. mask and shut up the complainers because they make you uncomfortable that the boots gonna land on you. i hope we cry more
>>736712I knew a person with ADHD who used me and ruined my friend group and bullied another friend of mine. A lot of people with ADHD bully others online and a lot of statistics support that. Autistic people are just very insecure but kind people. I have always had bad experiences with people with ADHD.
>>736962ooh look i have no friends ooh i have to fit in
>>736977>my personal anecdote represents everyone>conveniently the mental disorder i have is actually only for very good very special boysman this is fucking sad to read lmao
>>736986yeah i can tell
>>736977Do you believe in the horoscope too
>>736903>[Autists] were killed or left to starve.>Same for victims of down syndrome and schizophrenia.>Nowadays, we are more humane.This is not true. They were cared for. Some societies even treated them as royalty or supernatural. Even for Sparta, which is known in pop culture for abandoning babies, there's no proof whatsoever of them ever actually doing it, there are no archaeological evidence of it ever been a widespread practice.
>>736987I don't have any disorder, but from my experiences people with autism and adhd were very friendly but people who were easily manipulated by other parties. I always keep wary of people with ADHD, autistic people have always been friendly to me.
Their behaviors have them listed to more prone to bullying others and being less empathetic too. I don't really trust them. Autistic people are really aggressive sometimes but they've always had good intentions from my experience.
>ADHD
<impairs basic daily functioning, essentially living life on hard mode if unmedicated, some tasks are near impossible when to a normie they seem trivial
>autism
<you act cringe sometimes?
If you have high self awareness + insecurity being autistic is an actual hell, I'm 100% sure I wouldn't feel that bad if I had never been diagnosed, it's like a narcissistic wound for me
>>737158Why would it be a problem to worry about?
>>737158you can get medication dipshit.
>>737163Do I get to snort it though?
>>736013>maskingThey don’t have autism.
>>736536Masking kulaks are not autists. That’s like saying I’m blind but I can control my symptoms because I can keep my eyes open.
>>737158I’d sell snow but I’d cut my semen into the stuff I sell leftist women.
Is that autistic?
>>737158ADHD diagnosis is useful for meds. Autism diagnosis can be useful for affirmative action policies depending on where you live e.g. here in Brazil autistic people have smaller queues, can take exams in different rooms, don't have to pay income taxes, and some job selections have autism quotas. Truly the bourgeoisie of mental disorders.
>>737094>autism<you act cringe sometimes?And issues with executive function, which is another reason why many of them can‘t hold a job. Sensory sensitivity. More sensitive to developing trauma. Also very naive and trusting which makes them end up in dangerous situations.
>>737302>Truly the bourgeoisie of mental disorders.not disagreeing but its easy to feel like this bc autists in poor families have to suck it up instead of being pampered until theyre grown ass adults
>>737198>communism is le good vibes and charity and caring about other people, if you disagree youre some madeup amerilard larplol sorry bud its workers acting in self-interest that lead to the abolition of class society
>>737158NEETbux and disability benefits. That's really it.
>>737158Maybe because it helps explain why life was so difficult?
Late diagnosis is better than no diagnosis at all
>>737197>>737200Masking is a part of autism.
Saying it doesn’t is just “no true Scotsman” fallacy
>>737317>>737302Autism is the bourgeois is mental disorder
By that logic, so is being paraplegic, food allergies, and schizo
>>736761Why don’t you say this to all the posts on this site of asocial neurotypicals whining about not getting laid?
>>737318So you admit that communism is just alternative individualism.
You admit that communism will allow for genocide of “weirdos I don’t like”?
How is this any difference from fascism?
>>736543Then, most the dislike for non-leftists, thinking them as reactionaries/sheeplike etc is on you guys
>>737520It’s not. Nearly all autistic people don’t know how to do it. Autism is a disorder that includes limited social ability as its symptom. The whole “masking” thing was created by capitalist critical theorists who want to exterminate the higher needs autistic people.
>>737545He’s a liberal and liberalism is fascism.
>>737619Masking is a part of autism.
A lot of higher functioning artists semi-innately do it
Just because the term was coined by capitalist theorists doesn’t make it not true.
Masking isn’t even always perfect but it’s the best defense we autists have
>>737622I have a hard time believing liberalism is fascism.
Fascism doesn’t respect individualism like liberalism does
>>737623>masking is part of autismAs I said, it’s not. That is only reserved for the top 1% of autistic people.
Go ahead and say that being able to control your blindness is an attribute of blindness.
>>737626That’s not a good comparison.
Again, whether you like it or not, masking is a part of autism.
It’s just that only one percent of autists can mask without being suspect of having autism
>>737158nothing really. its just the community which in response lets you vent and maybe learn some better coping tricks. how the hell the spook i meet once a year for 20 minutes gonna help me fix my entire life
>>737158How would you like it if you got a mysterious injury to your body and never knew what or why it happened and people tell you to get over it because you lived with it through your prime years despite it causing major setbacks?
>>737631It’s not the case. I’ve been diagnosed since I was 7 years old and I haven’t heard of the “masking” bullshit until like 2 years ago. My cousins both a man and a woman in their 30s have no clue how to mask as well. One is non-verbal and the other is high needs. The only people I’ve met who claim to be “masking” autists are online. The more I’ve looked into it, I’ve noticed that the literature on the “masking” phenomenon is recent and doesn’t even originate from neurobiologists. It’s a scam created by liberals to exterminate the “unwanted” autists.
>>737635Masking is still a relevant thing.
The term may not be well known but the phenomenon isn’t.
As for your cousins, they don’t seem capable of it because one is non verbal and the other is high needs
I’m autistic as well as my three other brothers.
And my youngest brother is more high needs than the rest of us and we all mask.
Also, liberals sympathize the shit out of autism.
They want to paint autism as being an angelic polymath who can do no wrong nor fail.
>>737639I agree.
People with autism could have had a “better” life.
Just because someone doesn’t possess autism doesn’t mean their life if better tho, anyone with autism who has a “bad” life has an equal chance of having a “bad” life as a regular person.
You could make any manner of choice and actively do worse than you are now as a normal person.
>>737545>So you admit that communism is just alternative individualism.lol i posted that communism is a practical movement solely concerned with the proletariat and your first kneejerk response is bringing up some random ideology. how do you spend so many hours of your life posting on this shithole and still cant grasp the most basic shit
>>737622<basic ass marxist statement about the self-interest of workers is le liberal/fascistyou are a massive fucking retard
>>736013>try to use vpn in the bunker but get banned and called ironfelixI don't even know what an ironfelix is but having a vpn made me feel a little safer. Don't want to get sent to rfk's work camps
>>736015the drugs make you a little less of a mess but you are still fucked especially if you have the tism too.
>>736048you can have the dumb as rocks autism and have no value to capitalist society.
>>736507>fix my deviated septum and get my turbinates reduced at 28Life is a lot of less of a struggle tbh desu. Still a major fuck up.
>>736946>God lets himself be born with AutismThe bible might actually be consistent if autistic Jesus wrote it.
>>737639> liberals sympathize the shit out of autismNo they don’t retard. They want them exterminated. They only tolerate the masking kulaks.
Honestly, being able to mask is rare and it shouldn’t be part of the attributes related to autism. If you have the capability to mask, you don’t have autism.
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