[ SECRET POST #5837 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5837 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You got some stats to back it up? No, of course not. Because people who self identify aren't getting diagnosed professionally.

[(Anonymous)]

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I'm not even talking about self-diagnosis or anything like that. Even if autism prevalence is very low, it's still overwhelmingly likely that most people have met at least one autistic person at some point in their lives. You would have to think that "legitimate" autism is vanishingly rare for that not to be the case. As far as I can tell, most estimates put autism prevalence at somewhere around 1% of the population, and most people meet far more than 100 people during their lifetimes.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

I think AYRT is operating on a kind of visibility bias. Certain autistic traits and behaviors are going to be more overt, visible, and recognizable than others, so of course those are the traits that get noted and associated with "real autism." Until some people start to make the assumption that if those traits and behaviors aren't exhibited, the person must not really have autism, because all the people who actually do have autism but don't exhibit those visible, recognizable traits and behaviors have always flown under their radar and thus, in their mind, don't exist.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I have met people who, in retrospect, I think are autistic but masking effectively. Based on other things I know about them. I have OCD and mask pretty well.

But I agree that diagnosing real people and posting publicly about that is wack.

Characters, headcanon what you want.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Oh, yeah, absolutely, I totally agree about that! I kind of forgot about how this sub-thread fit into the broader conversations and forgot to specify that while I disagree with anon's "spicy take" I do actually completely agree with the secret itself.

[(Anonymous)]

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