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Originally Posted by Whale biologist
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It's not great that people like OP self-identify as autistic as a cheap road to intellectual clout online. Autism is awful.
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It can be for some but not for everyone, it depends on how negatively impactful it is on their life. Someone with just aspergers (a term which never should have been taken out of the DSM because it was useful, but it was) can have a completely “normal” life, and most people wouldn’t even know they had unless the person told them
And there are some benefits to it, things like being able to dial in on a task and concentrate harder and longer than someone more “neurotypical” could. Also being able to retain larger amounts of details, things like that
I have a bigger issue with people proudly announcing specific negatives like depression or eating disorders, any mental health issue that could be recovered from in some way (meaning not something that will always require medication). It’s fine to accept and have the confidence to mention your challenges in life, but it is another thing to work something like that into your identity. As soon as you start incorporating it into your sense of self, you can inadvertently de-motivate yourself to recover from it. And especially if you start identifying with a community around it, now you really lose motivation to recover because recovering will mean losing the connection to your community and friends
11-04-2021, 10:52 PM
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