Autism do you believe "high-functioning" autism is real and can you grow out of it

NT

NT

Decommissioned
or what used to be called asperger's.
i got diagnosed at 15 and now that i'm 19 i'm still having a hard time determining whether or not it's a bullshit label. i had a fairly normal childhood all the way to the end of middle school.
my last year of middle school got cut short due to covid and looking back it feels like something happened between march and october of 2020. when i started high school (a month late because i was in an outpatient treatment thing) everything kinda fell apart and i basically lost my ability to function normally. i forgot how to have conversations, how to read people, and started becoming obsessed with my hobbies as a way to cope. there's lots of other le autism symptoms in there but i dont feel like listing them.
so maybe the giant break made me lose my skills. "late onset" autism isnt a real thing of course...
and i ended up getting diagnosed with ASD level 1 (le high functioning) in november of 2020. i stayed miserable for most of high school, until my senior year where i started acting more like a normal (if somewhat quiet and timid) kid. i dont even acknowledge the autism anymore and ive never used it as a crutch or excuse.
im wondering if maybe i got misdiagnosed and it was a teenage phase i guess
sorry for the word salad
 
also this is unrelated but i hate how they merged le assburgers and autism into one thing
im certainly not a very professional person but idk why im under the same label as people who shit in diapers at 35 and watch thomas the train all day geg
i have a diploma and im very close to getting a license to drive
 
I think people can just act weird, especially in the years where these doctors often diagnose these "mental illnesses", but I don't think that it's an actual thing.
 
NT said:
also this is unrelated but i hate how they merged le assburgers and autism into one thing
im certainly not a very professional person but idk why im under the same label as people who shit in diapers at 35 and watch thomas the train all day geg
i have a diploma and im very close to getting a license to drive
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As a normal person who has to be lumped in with those faggots because I was too sigma to talk to the pre-k teacher when I was 4 I agree with you
I don't know if you can get rid of an autism diagnoses but if you can I'd do it in a heartbeat
 
Aedra said:
I don't believe autism itself is real.
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I'm not sure what it is about autism you think isn't real. If the people who are labeled as autistic act in a manner distinguishable from what is normal then surely a term like autism would be useful to differentiate between the two behaviour types especially for those in the extremes. Without the term "autist" there wouldn't be a specific term to describe them other than calling them retards which also encompasses what is likely half the world. Though I do think the term is probably too easily applied to some people and treatment too quickly prescribed.
 
condolana said:
I'm not sure what it is about autism you think isn't real. If the people who are labeled as autistic act in a manner distinguishable from what is normal then surely a term like autism would be useful to differentiate between the two behaviour types especially for those in the extremes. Without the term "autist" there wouldn't be a specific term to describe them other than calling them retards which also encompasses what is likely half the world. Though I do think the term is probably too easily applied to some people and treatment too quickly prescribed.
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Maybe I should have clarified how I see this then. The behaviors associated with mental disorders do exist, but the way we define them can change depending on culture. I don't think modern psychology is superior to your average medieval peasant who describes, say, traits we associate with schizophrenia as demonic possession. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that the peasant is probably wiser than modern psychology.
 
High functioning autism just means you're slightly not normal. A lot of people seem to think autism IS LE OMEGA BRAINDEAD NIGGER TIER IQ DISORDER but for the most part that's not it. In fact I wouldn't really say it exists because being a little different doesn't make you not normal. Low functioning autism exists though
 
Aedra said:
Maybe I should have clarified how I see this then. The behaviors associated with mental disorders do exist, but the way we define them can change depending on culture. I don't think modern psychology is superior to your average medieval peasant who describes, say, traits we associate with schizophrenia as demonic possession. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that the peasant is probably wiser than modern psychology.
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You're a fucking retard dude, what the fuck do demons have to do with anything?
 
terrycrews said:
You're a fucking retard dude, what the fuck do demons have to do with anything?
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"Scientific" explanations of schizophrenia match up with historical and religious examples of demonic posession. Now you make what you will of that but I assume that is why
 
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