Yee. “Everyone is a bit autistic” and “autism is an infinite spectrum” really piss me off. Like, I have real symptoms. Trichotillomania and auditory meltdowns and hyperfocus are real things I deal with, people.
In the end, if you don’t share (some or more) symptoms, you don’t share a diagnosis— medical or mental. Autism needs to be understood so autistic people can get support and tools. If that means we need more-specific words than just “autism”, then that’s just how it is.
I dunno, but I found a lot of people on Lemmy in the three days I’ve been here who downvote people for not already knowing everything, and for asking sincere questions due to it.
so sinister, that all you can say is “well, we found satan.”
So basically what you and all my downvoters are saying is that you have no sense of scale. Okay.
Yeah, but that’s not what the community description says.
Edit: Wow, there are a lot of defensive-retaliation downvotes. I’m not bashing your community, fam.
Is that a reference, or is it original? ^^
And a babysitter. ^^
Like I said below, I’ve been on Lemmy for like 3 or 4 days now, and I’ve found that a chunk of people are either:
Luckily that doesn’t seem to be most people here. I’ve had a good experience on Lemmy so far.
Edit: Lemmy’s “1. 2.” list and bullet list line-space formatting is whack.