[ SECRET POST #2636 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2636 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

But they label themselves as Aspies or "non-neurotypical" (fucking weak weasel word to imply assburgers) in order that you know they are faking something. Its handy that way. Generally on Tumblr they also label themselves as Mens Rights Campaigners too, just in case they meet one of the fools that actually believe aspergers is a real thing.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck you.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

pix first

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Got it in one.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[dethtoll]

man i'll yell at people all day long for faking asperger's (especially if it's self-diagnosed) but i don't deny it's a real thing and i have met people who legitimately have it

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Is it legitimate, though? IIRC ASD has been removed from the DSM V.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[dethtoll]

They didn't, it just got folded into a broader autism spectrum.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. All I read about it was one mother writing an article (I want to say The Atlantic but I can't be bothered to check RN) about how her child "fell off the spectrum" with the new criteria.

I find it sad that lack of socialization has become so medicalized, that doctors and parents throw all kinds of interventions and pathological responses at it, instead of, oh, say, socializing your child properly to begin with.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

They tightened up the diagnostic criteria on it, amongst other disorders, to reflect the fact it is now better understood and because the previous criteria was so broad that virtually anyone could qualify for it with only slight exaggeration of daily living behaviors. So some people probably did get jettisoned, but that is only because they were false positives under previous diagnostic criteria.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Right, this was my understanding. Though it's a shame so many kids in that generation have been pathologized/medicalized due to it.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

THIS, so much. Hell, if autism had been a thing back when I was a kid, I'm sure I probably would've been slapped with the label because I was shy and quiet and preferred books to people.

Guess what? I grew out of it. I was just a late bloomer socially; there was nothing wrong with me at all. I know plenty of other people who were the same way, too. Some people just take a while to become comfortable with themselves and that's okay.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, just very mild autism. In other words, it is something the person with it can overcome with little effort and doesn't need anyone else to have to make allowances for. That is why a lot of those who invested their online presence in having aspergers are in outrage over, they now have to grow up and not act like brats. It is also why they incidence of people claiming it has plummeted (just like ADHD and bi-polar before it when they fell out of fashion). Some new disorder will be invented soon for the people who want to be assholes without having the good grace to admit they just like being an asshole.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

it is something the person with it can overcome with little effort and doesn't need anyone else to have to make allowances for

In other words, they have nothing wrong with them, they just want a special snowflake label for themselves.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

bullseye

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

No, in other words, it makes life a little more difficult, the same way that various factors can make life a little more difficult. It's not "overcome," it doesn't go away, but it's managed. People adjust and compensate. I don't mention my diagnosis and I don't get special treatment, but I live with it. And I'm posting this anon - I don't want a label, and comments like yours are the reason why.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Bullshit on little effort.

I was diagnosed at the highest functioning end of the spectrum at a young age and that took years of learning coping mechanisms, group therapy, medication, and active socialization to not stick out like a sore thumb in social situations and I still struggle with long term decisions and dealing with stress.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly you are putting in a little effort so you can be normal and, this post sadly excepted, not expecting others to be the ones that have to accommodate your weirdness. That is all this redefinition has done. Acknowledged your small effort and that it is no longer appropriate to put up with special snowflake demands. All on you buddy, its all on you.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[vethica]

can overcome with little effort and doesn't need anyone else to have to make allowances for

lol nope

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

No.
Alsos, fuck you.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[cakemage]

Wow, no.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

My compensatory patterns have given me a depression that has kept coming back time and again ever since I was 12. But I guess that's "little effort".

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

This--thank you.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[diet_poison]

go away

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

<3