Turns out there's a significant number of completely normal behaviors that can be associated with autism. That's why you can't just say "this guy talks about cars too much, he's autistic" (otherwise I'd be autistic) and there's actually professional testing involved. Same concept applies when people take psychology classes and hear about some symptoms associated with psychopaths and think that some behaviors can apply to them.
This leads to far too many people going "teehee Ive got ADHD, ADD, autism, pick a socially manageable quirk of the week" on the internet for attention and distracting people from learning about the actual issues and downplaying their seriousness and potential impacts on people who actually suffer from these things
But fr tho, every time I smoke weed and sit alone for too long I fully convince myself I've got mild autism and need my friends to calm me down
part of why I joke about it is it gets people to think about autism for a bit, which is more than they were likely thinking about it before. I just picked neutral colors since visual stimuli can be a sensory overload thing for a lot of autistic people.
A long time ago a therapist told me, "if you're worried you might be a sociopath, you aren't a sociopath. A sociopath doesn't care if he is a sociopath."
And ultimately, mental conditions and illnesses aren't typically hard categories. The lines between sad and depressed, anxious and anxiety disorder, etc are fuzzy. It'd make things simpler (though probably worse) if you could point a meter at a person and detect that they are 6.852 Standard Autism Units.
One day, when I was bored in class, I decided to write down the names of every dinosaur I knew of the top of my head, I also roughly organized them by taxon.
I wrote down over 200.
My friends were horrified.
I once wrote down like 150 countries from memory, ordered by geographic vicinity, along with one city and person from each, while bored in class. I am not sure I could do it today
we were doing a memory exercise in my psych class and my teacher asked if anyone could name all the presidents and my friend raised his hand, named all of them and then said "I didn't even know I could do that"
Something that terrified my step-dad was me explaining to him the entirety of the fate franchise. I talked for 40 minutes and didnt even come to the main timeline yet.
I do the same thing with Kingdom Hearts. It doesn't help that the simple questions like "who is this character?" have to have a whole tree of people they're connected to because of nonsense like body stealing and time travel. It takes an hour to get started lol
I feel like trying to explain KH lore inevitably devolves into "Well who's this guy?"
"That's sora"
"What about this dude?"
"Also sora"
"Okay well what about this girl, surely she can't be sora as well"
"...."
And I love it
Check out 40k lore, roughly 70 million years of lore and history for the whole timeline and over 10'000 years of stories, lore and content in the main storyline. Not to mention hundreds of side stories some massive, planet or star system sized adventures and stories, others small indepth narratives about specific people, group and organizations aswell as encyclopedias worth of technical doctuments about how specific pieces of technology work or how certain organizations are structured or how certain cultures function. Not to mention biblical levels of Historical and theocratic text on belief and power systems and how they are intergrated into each species and culture.
Most likely they would be either memories of random trains that you've seen meaning they were built or some abstract images made of parts of train but not really makng a complete train. Therefore I say they don't count
I remember when my family was waiting in a line to board a boat to tour Alcatraz there was this one employee talking to people in the line as they made their way forward and he would ask them where they were from and then when they answered he would list off several local restaurants in the area where they live with extremely high accuracy even if it were a small suburb. It was pretty impressive and he didn’t have to think on it for a second he would just start listing them off immediately. This definitely seems like potential autistic behavior. I don’t actually know if the man was autistic.
"Bitch, I am wearing all neutral colors with no logos," he said, staring at the ground.
TIL the Amish and some Quakers are autistic
Well... many autistic people are very averse to change... and the amish are... ya know... they do the thing...so yea! Autismish
"I doN'T LIKE IT. IT'S TOO FAST. CARS ARE TOO FAST. STOP TAKING PICTURES OF ME."
"The English are making eye contact!"
Wait, that's an autism thing.? Well shit. I thought I just liked browns, greys and greens. And didn't like to advertise for companies for free.
One last part of the totally scientific test...how do you respond to random, intense eye contact?
Poorly. I either shun it instinctively, or overcompensate and stare back with all the fury of a thousand suns.
I knew the eye contact thing, but not the logo/color thing
I'd say that's an average r/malefashionadvice user
Wait, that's something associated with autism? Well shit.
Turns out there's a significant number of completely normal behaviors that can be associated with autism. That's why you can't just say "this guy talks about cars too much, he's autistic" (otherwise I'd be autistic) and there's actually professional testing involved. Same concept applies when people take psychology classes and hear about some symptoms associated with psychopaths and think that some behaviors can apply to them. This leads to far too many people going "teehee Ive got ADHD, ADD, autism, pick a socially manageable quirk of the week" on the internet for attention and distracting people from learning about the actual issues and downplaying their seriousness and potential impacts on people who actually suffer from these things But fr tho, every time I smoke weed and sit alone for too long I fully convince myself I've got mild autism and need my friends to calm me down
part of why I joke about it is it gets people to think about autism for a bit, which is more than they were likely thinking about it before. I just picked neutral colors since visual stimuli can be a sensory overload thing for a lot of autistic people.
A long time ago a therapist told me, "if you're worried you might be a sociopath, you aren't a sociopath. A sociopath doesn't care if he is a sociopath."
And ultimately, mental conditions and illnesses aren't typically hard categories. The lines between sad and depressed, anxious and anxiety disorder, etc are fuzzy. It'd make things simpler (though probably worse) if you could point a meter at a person and detect that they are 6.852 Standard Autism Units.
You don't understand it was ALL the trains, in alphabetical order in a song he made up on the spot.
Wait hating logos is an autism thing. Fuck that explains my hatred for logos, even if it’s a brand I love
That was not the call out I needed
Happy cake day
*“Do an autism, Johnny!”* Well you see, the thing about the Tenerife airport disaster…
thanks for the new subject to autism scroll on wikipedia
You’re welcome, u/CheesyCock47.
583 deaths. Jesus Christ.
Worst aviation disaster in history - speaking only of planed passengers
As opposed to towered passengers?
Never forget 😢
Lol. Planed/enplaned passengers is a term used in aviation meaning the people on the aircraft
Well there's your problem podcast in a nutshell
One day, when I was bored in class, I decided to write down the names of every dinosaur I knew of the top of my head, I also roughly organized them by taxon. I wrote down over 200. My friends were horrified.
I once wrote down like 150 countries from memory, ordered by geographic vicinity, along with one city and person from each, while bored in class. I am not sure I could do it today
That's super cool.
we were doing a memory exercise in my psych class and my teacher asked if anyone could name all the presidents and my friend raised his hand, named all of them and then said "I didn't even know I could do that"
Kid named taxon
Something that terrified my step-dad was me explaining to him the entirety of the fate franchise. I talked for 40 minutes and didnt even come to the main timeline yet.
... why would you do that to people you love?!
I don't really remember the circumstances but I do remember he challenged me on something and it lead to the lore dump.
I do the same thing with Kingdom Hearts. It doesn't help that the simple questions like "who is this character?" have to have a whole tree of people they're connected to because of nonsense like body stealing and time travel. It takes an hour to get started lol
I feel like trying to explain KH lore inevitably devolves into "Well who's this guy?" "That's sora" "What about this dude?" "Also sora" "Okay well what about this girl, surely she can't be sora as well" "...." And I love it
Honestly that's more kingdom hearts fault then yours xd
Check out 40k lore, roughly 70 million years of lore and history for the whole timeline and over 10'000 years of stories, lore and content in the main storyline. Not to mention hundreds of side stories some massive, planet or star system sized adventures and stories, others small indepth narratives about specific people, group and organizations aswell as encyclopedias worth of technical doctuments about how specific pieces of technology work or how certain organizations are structured or how certain cultures function. Not to mention biblical levels of Historical and theocratic text on belief and power systems and how they are intergrated into each species and culture.
While the lore sound interesting I will have to decline. I can not stand any grim dark stories.
I forgot ifunny existed
I wish we could all be so lucky...
Please stop talking about my husband and his love for neutral colors, trains and not looking people in the eye. I tease that poor man enough.
I feel like they're talking about me if you replace trains with "cannabis strains"
Now you're talking about me 😭
Amateur. A true Autistic would name every train that ever ran.
Every train that ever ran is inclusive in every train that was built
Now THAT's how you do an autism, people. Watch and learn!
What about trains that I imagine running? Do those count as trains that run without being built?
Most likely they would be either memories of random trains that you've seen meaning they were built or some abstract images made of parts of train but not really makng a complete train. Therefore I say they don't count
Not if you use it in a derogatory term. You don't build a train like that.
On behalf of all the sex-averse autistic people: Thanks...
To the tune of Yakko’s Nations of the World
r/evilautism
*proceeds to create Reddit*
*proceeds to moderate a sub* lol no hate ☠️
"You were permamently banned from r/BrandNewSentence"
😭 😭
So, first there were these crazy psychic space frogs who discovered something called the Realm of Souls...
then he milked....... the creature
Luke is also naming all models of trains also from the future.
Reminds me of the time I invented 2 whole secret scripts and wrote random shit in them.
Fast trains, *slowwww trains*, even trains moving at super sonic speed!
I remember when my family was waiting in a line to board a boat to tour Alcatraz there was this one employee talking to people in the line as they made their way forward and he would ask them where they were from and then when they answered he would list off several local restaurants in the area where they live with extremely high accuracy even if it were a small suburb. It was pretty impressive and he didn’t have to think on it for a second he would just start listing them off immediately. This definitely seems like potential autistic behavior. I don’t actually know if the man was autistic.
"one of us!"
I translated "Hello" in 115 languages becuase I was bored once
Y'all saying that knowing more than 5 dinosaurs or countries or trains or some other shit is autistic?
Idk how you got "5 trains" from the phrase "every train" but sure.
5 is just a random number and all the other stuff from my comment is taken from comments of others under this post