Honest question: is this actually an autism thing? Or just anxiety in general?
This feels a lot like me and I’ve wondered for a long time if I have undiagnosed autism. Wonder if this is another item for the laundry list of things to tell a psychologist (for that diagnostic appointment I’ve been saying for years I should book but I have no clue how to do that so I just don’t ever do it).
Most of the memes here are not “autism things”. Maybe a certain pattern of these occurences and traits are. But each and every meme you see on here is a prolific trait, made into a format for impulsive consumption, reposted to everywhere and everything it can be reposted to.
I aint autistic as far as I know. As far as Im concerned, these memes are more like “ah mai gad, I feel so weird” and ADHD memes are “Ah mai Gawd I feel like I cant do anything”. That is why I like them in my feed.
Conditions under a general umbrella like these can be very elusive to diagnose. I have been playing a cat mouse game with myself for years to get to know my psyche and it still had little progress.
Almost everyone i know that is on the spectrum has some overlap with other neurodivergent stuff. I am pretty sure were just part of a minority normal and for some reason neurotypical majority normal felt like the only way to make sense of us is by categorizing people centered about the different subsets of challenges they face within the context often their often narrow minded and asocial world.
Classical diagnosis can be a useful tool to obtain sometimes much needed acknowledgement and accommodation but Its who we are from an outsider’s perspective.
The Neurodivergent movement is a people first approach started by the autistic and adhd community. Its who we are from our own perspectives. Its absolutely possible you fit non of the classical diagnosis criteria as a unique neurodivergent person.
Honest question: is this actually an autism thing? Or just anxiety in general?
This feels a lot like me and I’ve wondered for a long time if I have undiagnosed autism. Wonder if this is another item for the laundry list of things to tell a psychologist (for that diagnostic appointment I’ve been saying for years I should book but I have no clue how to do that so I just don’t ever do it).
Most of the memes here are not “autism things”. Maybe a certain pattern of these occurences and traits are. But each and every meme you see on here is a prolific trait, made into a format for impulsive consumption, reposted to everywhere and everything it can be reposted to.
I aint autistic as far as I know. As far as Im concerned, these memes are more like “ah mai gad, I feel so weird” and ADHD memes are “Ah mai Gawd I feel like I cant do anything”. That is why I like them in my feed.
Conditions under a general umbrella like these can be very elusive to diagnose. I have been playing a cat mouse game with myself for years to get to know my psyche and it still had little progress.
This meme is just general anxiety by the way.
Look up neurodivergent
Almost everyone i know that is on the spectrum has some overlap with other neurodivergent stuff. I am pretty sure were just part of a minority normal and for some reason neurotypical majority normal felt like the only way to make sense of us is by categorizing people centered about the different subsets of challenges they face within the context often their often narrow minded and asocial world.
Classical diagnosis can be a useful tool to obtain sometimes much needed acknowledgement and accommodation but Its who we are from an outsider’s perspective.
The Neurodivergent movement is a people first approach started by the autistic and adhd community. Its who we are from our own perspectives. Its absolutely possible you fit non of the classical diagnosis criteria as a unique neurodivergent person.