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⌈ Secret Post #5857 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why tf are people reacting like the problem with speculating about celebrities maybe being autistic is that you're probably wrong? Autism isn't that uncommon, and ime people sometimes correctly pick up on that. The thing that's bad is like, if someone hasn't publically said they're autistic, it's rude to start telling people that that they are. (Whether it's correct or not!)
Also, headcanoning fictional characters as autistic is good actually and we should do that like 10x more.

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's invasive AF to be speculating about someone else's mental state when you've never even met them?

There's a reason that even licensed professionals don't diagnose people right off the bat until they've spent some time talking to them/doing diagnostic tests and evaluations. It's not like you can just say "this person does these things, so they're autistic/have ADHD/OCD/bipolar/etc."

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's invasive AF to be speculating about someone else's mental state when you've never even met them?

I don't think speculation is intrinsically invasive

If you're going around social media yelling about it to everyone, that's probably invasive, I guess

[(Anonymous)]

I would argue that it is when it's someone you've never met in your life and have only seen through the lens of what they show the public. You don't even know if that's what they're actually like or if it's just a persona they put on for public presentation!

[(Anonymous)]

It might be wrong and misguided for those reasons, but I don't think it's invasive

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but... is invasive the right term for a thought you have that doesn't make it to the person you're thinking about, nor does it impact that person's life in any way?

That would be like me thinking, "Oh this person I work with might be on the spectrum, they do a lot of the things I do." and... that's as far as it goes, an internal musing.

Said person doesn't know I've had the thought, nor does it colour how I interact with them.

[(Anonymous)]

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I would call it more presumptuous than invasive. If they were to present their speculation and/or "evidence" to the famous person or on a public forum with the person's name attached, I would consider that invasive.

[(Anonymous)]

This is giving me vibes of "Having a crush on someone without their consent is creepy."

[(Anonymous)]

If you can't see the difference between thinking someone is attractive and assigning them a medical diagnosis when a) you've never interacted in person, and b) you're not a professional who is qualified to be doing that in the first place, IDK what to tell you.

[(Anonymous)]

They are not assigning, they are speculating. And I am going to assign you "thought crime disease"

[(Anonymous)]

"There is a famous person who I am 110% sure is on the spectrum."

OP's own words. That's assigning. Speculating would be "I think they might be on the spectrum."

[(Anonymous)]

It's still speculating, because OP has no power to actually make someone be on the autism spectrum, and we know that, and so does everyone else.

"110% sure" is just an emphatic statement of the strength of their belief that it's a fact.

[(Anonymous)]

That's... not what invasive means.

Invasive would be if you harassed them (or even their friends) on social media, asking why they haven't admitted their condition and tossing a bunch of "helpful" resources at them, thinking it's your job to ease their life in some way.

Speculating is not being invasive. It's presumptuous (and depending on the reasoning, possibly delusional thinking) but not invasive. But as long as the person avoids turning their thought into an action (and no, an anonymous secret on a comm where the celeb wasn't even identified doesn't count), then no harm is being done.