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The Neurotypicals are STILL NOT OKAY

I'm Autistic, Now What?

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📒 Sources 📒:
Are the NT Okay Reddit: Reddit: aretheNTokay
Autism is Caused by...tech? Reddit: autism_is_caused_by_using_smartphones_and_text
You can't spell autism without Tim: Reddit: well_you_cant_spell_autism_without_tim_either
Anti-natalism Sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/aretheNTokay...
Racial Differences in Autism Diagnosis: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/add...
Racial gap is Closing: https://www.epicresearch.org/articles...
More People Getting Diagnosed as Autistic: https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-resea...
DSMV: https://www.tricare-west.com/content/...
Autistic People Experience Pain more Strongly: https://www.news-medical.net/news/202....
Autism and Empathy: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-...
Parental Age and Autism Risk: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
IVF Risks: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ivf/risks/
Autism Speaks Controversies: https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-conte...
Autism and Genetics: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/cond...
Autism is Under-diagnosed: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/jun/n...
Siblings and Autism: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/ar...
Autism Diagnosis in AFAB: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2...
Autism and Twins: https://www.kennedykrieger.org/storie....
Autism Speaks Cement Mixer: Reddit: autism_speaks_cement_mixer

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Unmasking Autism by Devon Price:
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DISCLAIMER: I am a second-year psychology student and a late-diagnosed #actuallyautistic individual. I am not a qualified healthcare professional.

20 Comments

@imautisticnowwhat Creator 2 years ago Pinned

Remember, you can’t spell autism without UTI!!

And is there are type of vehicle Autism Speaks don’t have? Every few months we find a new one 😂

If you missed the last time the neurotypicals weren’t okay: https://youtu.be/k4Q8SN0QUfk

Thank you so much for being here as always! 💛

@bosstowndynamics5488 2 years ago

The correlation between antidepressant use in pregnancy and subsequent diagnosis of autism is very easily explained when you consider that a disproportionately large number of autistic people are on antidepressants for comorbid depression and anxiety and that autism runs in families...

@melody_knox 2 years ago

Touched by an Angel❌ Touched by Autism✅

@Iamjustafrogdontlookatme 2 years ago

Autism rates rising? 🤔
NAH
Neurotypical rates declining👍🏻

@CristinaGarcia-xx4gy 2 years ago

People are out there really and honestly saying that autistic and neurodivergent people have less empathy and then you'll hear your neurotypical relatives and coleages saying the most prejudiced, inconsiderate, hurtful, and unempathetic things imaginable, that leaves you questioning if empathy really is something that does actually come by instinct to most people. They will treat people like they're less than human and be exhausting to be around, because they keep acting like everything about you isn't ever right, but also anything you have to say is never as valuable as what they have to say, and any consideration or accomodation you may need is "whinning" compared to any consideration and accomodation that they might need at any given time.

@-starrysunrise-2908 2 years ago

As a hyperempathetic autistic person, I hate how much empathy is glorified and low-empathy is treated as synonymous with "evil"!
It's not the same as compassion, it's not inherently better than sympathy, it's just an emotional response the same as any other.
I'd probably be able to act more ethically if I didn't always empathize with EVERYONE, as no matter how wicked their actions are my brain tries to find a way for me to relate.
And that's not mentioning how exhausting it is to empathize with inanimate objects as if they were people
Or the double empathy problem, where I upset allistics by treating them how I'd like to be treated, bc that's how empathy works!

It's just a feeling. That's all.

@Double0pi 2 years ago

When my son was diagnosed (as a teen), the clinician said, "When I was a kid, he wouldn't have been called autistic. We used to call people like him 'little professors'." It would be another six years before I was diagnosed with autism (age 47). And as I talked with my dad about my diagnosis, he realized (at age ~80) that he was also autistic.

It is definitely all about rates of diagnosis.

@Paula-dg1wu 2 years ago

With empathy, I really CARE about how other people feel, I just struggle to detect it without being told explicitly.

@timtheasianinc 2 years ago (edited)

Touched by an Autism sounds like a Hallmark movie. She had a special interest in cement mixers. He really liked typewriters from the 40s. Coming to the Hallmark Channel this Christmas, watch the heartwarming tale of two kids in the big city, as they tackle everyday tasks like speaking to the mailman and ordering a Chinese. Premiering December 25th at 8/7 central. 🎄🎄🎄🎄

@bcpr9812 2 years ago

IIRC, Dr. K has ADHD. If he has any misconceptions, I think he'd be open to changing his mind. He's done collaborations with YouTubers before, perhaps you can contact him and suggest doing one together.

@hayuseen6683 2 years ago

NTs have difficulty with empathy too - they misconstrue what someone is feeling and expressing on a regular basis. The ability to guess doesn't mean the guesses are accurate all the time.

@telemachus_tiramisu 2 years ago

CEMENT MIXER MATHS:

An average cement mixing truck will carry about 7.5 cubic meters of cement per load. That was a canadian truck, so presumably they are donating in terms of CAD.

So 7.50 CAD per truckload, which as of today is ~5.50 USD.

I will go with the heuristic of an average of 1 truckload of cement per day, since they wont always be active, but may use more than one load on a day when in use. $5.50 per day means $1825 per year. Not insignificant, but chump change compared to profits for a construction company.

Cement trucks are not my special interest. Im just a materials scientist

@Egg.and.Nugget_Combo 2 years ago

walks up to person
Says I AM AUTISM
pokes them
Whispers, you have been touched by autism
😂😂

@Norinia 2 years ago

Just love how they’re essentially tying autism to exclusively social situations.

It’s not ‘just a little anxiety’ when I’m melting down. My head is overloaded, it feels like white noise pressuring down, and my thoughts become garbled or can’t exist during the meltdown. That’s not ‘just a little anxiety’, that’s a full on failure to process.

These people are literally saying “i LiKeD yOu MoRe WhEn YoU wErE mAsKiNg!” And they have no idea the damage we suffered while masking, or that these issues were still there, just hidden until their breaking points.

@RayScheelhaase-nd9rw 2 years ago (edited)

NTs seem scared we are going to replace them.

@Fleatomatosauce 2 years ago

As an autistic, texting is SO MUCH better than speaking in person

@Lev-t2t 2 years ago

I was diagnosed in 2022 at age 57. Late diagnosis is the reason for the 'rise' in autism.

@emilphant 2 years ago (edited)

There's a reason that an autism diagnosis includes childhood history... Socially anxious people probably weren't walking around the playground while talking to themselves and flapping their arms like so many of us did or spitting out sensory trigger foods while lunch ladies watched in horror 😂

@TheLexikitty 2 years ago

My favorite thing about these people saying all this stuff about facial expressions is they don’t consider people with visual impairments. I can’t see peoples facial expressions from more than a foot away but that has nothing to do with how confusing NTs are.

@emmap6866 2 years ago

So for anyone not familiar with antinatalism: it’s basically the belief that it’s better not to have children, not to have too many children, and sometimes the implication that it would be better for humans to go extinct because of how bad the world is (interpretation of the definition differs). Personally I can appreciate some of the arguments there, I do think it’s important to consider what kind of situation your children will be born into and not to just have children for no reason/with no regard to them as actual people. HOWEVER the antinatalism subreddit in particular is an absolute ableist, classist, racist etc cesspool that has very little to do with actual moral arguments or philosophical considerations… it’s pretty much just there for people to be hateful. I’ve seen some pretty ugly stuff there with people being absolutely vile, so if you want to learn about antinatalism I definitely wouldn’t go there.