[ SECRET POST #5814 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5814 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

The thing about an autism diagnosis is that it's an spectrum SO WIDE it's hard to make an "autistic character" and not just "autistic coded" because that implies someone actually diagnosed them, somehow. And writes, generally, are not doctors. The best they can do is write from experience, or similarly to a close autistic person and even so it's risky.

Being diagnosed as autistic and quite impaired myself I realize that most "functioning" autistic people are NOT this impaired and if I had to write an autistic character based on my life experiences they would probably say it's bad representation because "most autistic people aren't that impaired!!" and whatnot. While I have no intellectual disability whatsoever, and nowadays can even pass for a well-functioning adult (for a maximum of 3 days which is why I can't keep a normal job anyway) it was VERY impairing in my childhood. So, an outsider can look at me and say "oh yeah, they have very mild ASD / Aspie at best!" and assume I am like the others but my private experiences are NOT like theirs. On the other hand recently I have talked to some people (my best friend included) who have claimed to be autistic or seeking an official diagnosis who are nothing like me (and would probably have bullied me for it in school anyway).

So, in short, it's a spectrum and a very wide one at that. Which is why it needs more research to nail down the differences and offer better support for people. But also, don't go assuming bad faith just because an autistic character or person is not like YOUR autism really.

[(Anonymous)]

TBH it's quite interesting and strange from an intellectual point of view that the boundaries are so wide, and it feels like there's probably a lot of underlying things going on that we don't fully understand yet

[(Anonymous)]

There certainly is. Unfortunately, the medical field, and particularly the field of psych research, is full of preconceived notions and occult interests that slow down its progress I feel. They have yet to find a common metabolic aspect or locus in the brain that is unique to every autistic individual and dozens of genes have been identified, so this should be enough proof of the fact that we are actually looking at different etiologies and potentially different "pathologies". The diagnosis criteria is based on observation (not biological processes, much less thought patterns) and it's VERY broad.

Doesn't help that we are often chased out of research in the field because we aren't "empathic enough" (or don't suck any professor's balls enough) and "self-advocacy is wrong!!" (source: ableist rich old white male doctors more often than not) anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh lol I used to do this too like I'd see someone's headcanoning a character as autistic and be like, but they're so normal. Unusually, exceptionally normal and reasonable, even.

I have since been diagnosed.

[pantswarrior]

Hahah this is all so relatable.

There is a character I like but he's generally considered "white bread" and "himbo", and I never really was sure I was going to be able to flesh him out plausibly in writing, until I saw a "autistic headcanon" and was like "oh ha right whatever, that's the big thing now isn't it?"

Then the more I thought about it and compared my own experience, the more sense it made, and suddenly I'm really confident in writing him and having a ton of fun. :D