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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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Yup. It’s part and parcel of my autism.
i was going to say this.
are you me? lol
You can’t prove I’m not
dang! got me/you there. i didn't know i/you was that smart. lol
Part of me is convinced this a joke for one guy, switching between two accounts, just laughing to himself. Like it's some kind of inside joke. And by "inside" I mean "inside his own head".
With a 3rd alt for misdirection and a 4th alt for plausible deniability.
i wonder the same thing myself. lol
There must be loads and loads of autism types. I see comments like this on Lemmy across the board. When I think of autism I think of truly slow autistic people. Can you explain deeper? I've looked online but there's a lot of wildly conflicting information.
In recent years we've come to the conclusion that autism is much broather than previously understood and than many more people fall om its' spectrum. People that have an account on a platform like Lemmy are automatically highly probably autistic in some way because or the barrier to entry and specific interests that normal people wouldn't even bother with.
I personally do not like the way that the world now tosses around autism like its a collectable, that started up with adhd and its only gotten worse, and then it started up again with autism.
I understanding the benefits of having labels for things but like, you absolutely don't need to rush finding labels for things you experience when you can just do the things to improve your experiences that you know you need to do, and if you can't do them this is just a sign that more focus on health habits are needed somewhere because sleep diet exercise is our bodys gas and oil that is absolutely vital to working efficiently so we don't kill ourselves.
I know it's kind of a trend but I think that is the case because so many people identify with it.
I wouldn't have cared about the label itself it if wouldn't have come with a vast amount of knowledge and explanations for many aspects of my life. This is why I cared about this and why I talk about it with others, because deep diving into the topic has helped me learn a lot more about myself more than anything else in my life and it explains many of my interactions with others as well as other peoples behaviours.
And to be honest many of the struggles of people on the authism and ADHD spectrum are not really something that can be solved with typical self improvement tactics, it's something to manage or maybe to medicate, but if you haven't found out that you fit the label it would be impossible to figure this out.
Hmm, maybe its a bias of mine because I've had totally the opposite experience, I knew way too much about all these kinds of things before the terms got trendy so it only ever seems like hindrance to fixing things.
What exactly do you mean by the barrier to entry? Did I unknowingly pass an autism test by creating an account?
This is just my opinion. Lemmy doesn't conform to many of the current standards of reduced friction for the user. Before joining you have to figure out that there are more than one servers that you could join and make a decision which one you want to be on and depending on your choice you have to take a mini interview and/or be approved by someone to join. After joining you probably either deal with an ugly page design that someone created like in the hi5/GeoCities days or you have to choose one of the milion apps that are available for it. While browsing you have to figure out that there are duplicate communities and figure out which ones you want to subscribe to and figure out what kind of sorting works best for you on your main page. And in order to discover more communities you go to All where you see a bunch of unhinges stuff that either you learn how to block or you ignore.
By the time you are having a seamless experience you have truly past the test of being somewhere on the spectrum, because no normal person will ever put up with all this, as could be seen with the user gain of mastodon vs bluesky after Twitter went to shit. The platform with less friction even though more closed and proprietary gained more users.
this, plus also the fact that normal people wouldn't even use social media if it wasn't full of attention-grabs and addictive techniques.
Dang we had a pretty different experience. I only had to do email verification, if I had to do a mini interview I wouldn't have made an account
So, you're basically saying that doing things the way you think works the best and not being afraid of new things, instead of simply choosing the path of least resistance gets you on the autism spectrum? If that's the case, then I think "normal" might be the biggest lie I've ever been told.
Think about your average Joe/Joanne. Are they someone who are willing to go against the status quo? Are they someone always ready to try new things? Are they someone not afraid to express themselves and be an actual individual?
That's why it's called normal because it's the most widespread, but I agree with you, normal is not something I want in my life and that already puts me on a spectrum somewhere.
Christ... autism truly has no meaning whatsoever
Sure. This guy was extraordinarily helpful for me.