Not everything you don't understand is autism

[NaturalBornNEET]

This diagnosis is such a pain in the ass, I don't even believe I have it. ASD is such a problematic label to begin with cuz of how general it is, the amount of incorrect assumptions people can make about someone based off a simple ASD diagnosis is nauseating, no I don't lack a theory of mind, how much of an animal do you fucking take me to be?


Families love autism especially, the perfect scapegoat to deny the fact they did a terrible job at child rearing or where even straight up abusive/neglectful. It's fucking disgusting how psychiatry thinks it can permanently brand someone with a diagnosis within a single meeting with them like they did me. It's just so obvious most of the "autism" cases today are just people with childhood trauma or circumstantial issues or damage of some kind, and I really don't get why the diagnosed themselves a lot of the time seem to WANT the diagnosis, why? It's by definition incurable, why would you want to believe your problem can never be cured?

Even if I have autism it isn't my main problem, trauma and circumstances are, but once you have the accursed diagnosis the mental health system just latches onto that and disregards everything else

 

[Pluto]

Couldn't agree more. My family used a shady diagnosis to cover up their decades of abuse. Turns out I had C-PTSD thanks to them.

 

[amerie]

I agree with mostly everything hence why I refuse to get diagnosed with more stuff, but I don't think anyone "wants" autism—no one wants to be mentally ill and if they do they are already mentally ill to some degree. Most people just want to be appropriately accommodated and get actual help because the life they're living is miserable.

 

[GhostInTheMachine]

ASD is such a meaningless diagnosis as well because the spectrum is so massively large that one has to wonder what the lowest common denominator between all autistic people even is. It's effectively become a "kinder" way to call somebody retarded without the guilt of using a "bad" word. The conspriatorial part of my mind believes that psychs are just using this as a catch-all term to slap on people when they don't want to bother digging deeper into somebody's mental anguish.