• @Mango
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      199 months ago

      Why? Dude is probably actually autistic.

      • thepixelfox
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        -109 months ago

        Do you just assume autistic cause people are weird?

        Not every autistic person is bad at social. And as an actual autistic person who wouldn’t dream of acting like that, I take offense to people dubbing everything they find odd or socially unacceptable as autism.

          • thepixelfox
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            -59 months ago

            Yes, I’m well aware of that. I went through the whole diagnosis process.

            But, it’s not always a symptom. You don’t have to tick every box in the symptom list. Some autistic people have that symptom, some don’t. None autistic people can have social issues too, it gets kinda tiring seeing every social issue being labelled as autism.

          • thepixelfox
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            19 months ago

            Oh, okay then. Sorry for getting defensive, I just see this kind of thing a lot. And I know that people are quick to label social difficulties as autism, so it gets kinda of tiring that people generally label everything out of the ordinary as being autism.

            Question, if you don’t mind.
            Does not being able to interpret others emotions make you anxious or avoid talking to people?
            I’m oddly hypersensitive to others emotions, which can be pretty tiring in itself actually. So I’m curious how it affects someone who isn’t.

        • @Mango
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          79 months ago

          It’s probably because you’re autistic that you only think of this as odd and not for the specific case being presented.

          • thepixelfox
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            09 months ago

            I was using odd as a catchall term, plus I was tired and couldn’t think of better phrasing. And I was using it to try and question why is it generally a common thing to label something as autism just because it isn’t a socially ‘acceptable’ response.

            Non autistic people can be just as socially inept. And not every autistic person is socially inept. So it’s just tedious seeing a lot of stuff labelled as autism, when it could be a plethora of other things.

            • @Mango
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              19 months ago

              Yeah sure, but those patterns are super clear and obvious to someone who’s not autistic. You probably do just a lot of non autistic stuff being labeled that way by dumb people hooked on the new buzzword though.