100% Pathologizing personality types and creating a 'spectrum' which means more people have a disorder or disability of some sort. And it actually ends up being a disservice to those who actually are autistic and cannot function themselves. I know people who are happily married, have their own business, house, children, and have been diagnosed autistic. Its now led to the point that when people hear 'autistic' they could well dismiss someone who is genuinely disabled. Because through the 'spectrum' the seriousness of the disability has been diluted and undermined.
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I’d love a video about this phenomenon. A lot of people accuse me of being autistic because I have some fixations and I’m generally socially awkward. Another autistic trait that I feel people don’t talk about a lot is stimming behavior. I think more NT people stim but not realize it because it’s not as extreme.
5 months ago
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Try doing the test twice. Once imagining yourself in a healthy state of mind (ventral vagal) and another where you imagine yourself in a disregulated state (dorsal vagal). You will be surprised at how different the results turn out. In my case When I'm in a healthy state of mind I'm "neurotypical" when I'm anxious, upset, disregulated I score very high on the autism spectrum.
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Truly! One of our kids has autism and literally no one else in either of our families have it. I question direct ‘scientific’ assumptions that it’s only genetics because when it’s assumed genetics people just think I’m must be really, really, really good at masking….ummm no, 😅
5 months ago
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The more I do research about autism and watch people talk about it online and in person, the more I question the validity of the phenomenon. Yes there are people diagnosed with the label who are low-functionig in their daily lives and obviously do suffer from a number of issues, but they also have a myriad of other medical problems that affect their brains. There's an endless amount of medical issues that look exactly like autism but aren't, and medical professionals and medical industries never even look deeply into those factors and why that is. As far as I'm concerned, people labeled with "high functioning autism" or "aspergers" really don't have a disorder. And they also have other issues going on with them that could very well be the source of the problem instead of the autism label. It just seems to me they have a few differences in evolutionary traits, but their brains really aren't different at a core. I don't see why it would matter anyway, they just are who they are and society needs to just accept that instead of needlessly pathologizing those who are only slightly different in the grand scheme of things.
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Courtney Coulson
Posting this here so the next person to accuse me of being Autistic can bash it up their bum.
It's bizarre to live in a time when you can't just be a weirdo, you must be Autistic. You can't just be androgynous, you are "nOnBiNaRy".
Sorry, but I'm just an androgynous weirdo, I am perfectly aware of the way I am, it's a choice, not a disability. I face none of the challenges an Autistic person does. It wouldn't be fair for me to pretend I am one of them.
Stop pathologising normal human behaviour!
I might make a video going through this test one day.
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