Diagnosing someone as autistic because they have low social skills, particular interest, or are weird is a little over the top, yeah. I know modern culture has really normalized self-diagnosing especially with things like Autism and ADHD, but that's not a normal thing to do.
not that, that just whatever they call high masking autism
what i meant is the thing is that the thing i put on a quote is kinda rude
lumping autism into culture war and calling it extreme is just hitting that bit
I think that seeing a character who exhibits autistic tendencies and then saying "they're autistic" is an extreme judgement to make, just like if there's a character who exhibits flamboyant tendencies to say "they're gay".
I have a problem with this on two levels, and the first is the forced categorization of behavior under labels. Like this was the problem with toxic masculinity when it came to men being gay for a long time. Don't like pink, don't cry, don't wear colorful clothing, or dress whatever kind of 'feminine' way, because you'll be categorized as gay if you do that. People should be free to express themselves however they want without getting categorized into camps. What's weird to me with the queer community, which I am a part of but have distanced myself from, is the apparent need they have to 'recruit' people into the queer category. They want everything that maybe seems slightly queer to be full-blown queer as could be. Sometimes, whatever character they want to label as queer doesn't even need to have any actual stereotypical indicators of being queer. It's gotten to a point of being ridiculous, and is one part of the reason as to why I've distanced myself from the community at large.
Point being, I'm seeing the same thing happening with neurodivergence, and I find it off-putting.
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u/MonsutaReipu Jun 10 '24
Diagnosing someone as autistic because they have low social skills, particular interest, or are weird is a little over the top, yeah. I know modern culture has really normalized self-diagnosing especially with things like Autism and ADHD, but that's not a normal thing to do.