fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #2636 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2636 ⌋

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

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

__________________________________________________

03.

__________________________________________________

04.

__________________________________________________

05.

__________________________________________________

06.

__________________________________________________

07.

__________________________________________________

08.

__________________________________________________

09.

__________________________________________________

10.

__________________________________________________

11.

__________________________________________________

12.

[Pinocchio]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 086 secrets from Secret Submission Post #377.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

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.

bullseye

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.

AYRT

You're the opposite of the Tumblr users we are discussing, though. And you don't seem to have the wild sense of entitlement the (self-diagnosed) Tumblrati do...

ayrt

Oh, I'm aware. But I have to say something when I see a blanket statement minimizing something that's very real for me.

AYRT

Why, though? We're not discussing Asperger's, as it applies to anyone; we're discussing the teenaged Tumblr users who (heh) appropriate the term as an excuse for acting like spoiled brats. Your beef would be far more with them, than with us, from what I can see.

(reply from suspended user)

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.

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.

Except I don't even mention my diagnosis to people unanon and expect no special snowflake treatment, asshole.

DA

The people we are discussing feel they don't NEED to make an effort, though. In part because there is nothing actually wrong with them. So they get all the oppression olympics points, without doing ANY of the hard work you have, nor do they have to, because the people we are discussing don't actually have anything wrong with them; i.e., they did a ten-question quiz on the Internet and decided "I HAVE ASSBURGERS!"

The way it came off in the post was that it's easy to do a little effort and then you're cured for the rest of your life, which I was calling bullshit on. It's a condition that you have to actively improve on and even then you still have stuff that most people don't have to deal with. And it's pretty easy for people who are legitimately on the spectrum to use fandom as an escape to avoid improvement, because improvement can be fucking difficult sometimes.

And by all means call out people who fake being on the autism spectrum or use it as excuse or means to win an argument for something completely unrelated to to their diagnosis.

Also by in large my experience with fandom and the autism spectrum is that fandom attracts people who are legitimately diagnosed, but some of those people are not pleasant or easy to deal with. They're also probably a vocal minority because I feel most people who are diagnosed don't want to deal with the bullshit and idiots even mentioning autism brings (like this very thread shows.) I mean, yeah there's shitty trolls who road the Chris-chan bandwagon, but honestly I think most fandom people who mention being on the spectrum actually have some form of it.

Can I just say that the use of "assburgers" in this thread, including by you, not only makes you into an asshole on this thread but also really detracts from your legitimacy in talking about this? It just makes it look like you don't take mental illness seriously and would rather accidentally make fun of someone who has Asperger's than accidentally fail to mock someone who doesn't.

DA

"Years of therapy and medication" doesn't sound like a "small effort" to me. How about you stop minimizing the real problems faced by the people whose conditions you so blithely dismiss and sneer at? C'mon, acting like a decent human being would only take a little effort to keep the rest of us from putting up with your special snowflake demands to be an asshole.

Ok if you're serious, you're an incredible asshole.

Funny how you talk about other people being assholes, when you're actually sounding like a massive one yourself.

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

lol nope

No.
Alsos, fuck you.

Wow, no.

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".

[ SECRET POST #2636 ]

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

Re: Fandom and Anxiety