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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: >You need to inform yourself more on the subject, specially when it comes to autistic *adults* aka people that either learned the hard way by themselves That's literally me. I'm autistic and learned on my own to pass as neurotypical. As a kid, my mom took me to a lot of programs for autistic people. Many of the adults there said that they couldn't believe that I was autistic. There were pre-teens acting like toddlers. The autism spectrum is more than just simply Asperger's (I'm calling it that despite the atrocities Han's Asperger may have done) and sever autism. There is shit in between. You and I are clearly less severe than Chris Chan who is unable to learn. I agree that Chris Chan is a disgrace to the autistic community and probably has other conditions like personality disorders, but he is clearly autistic. >therapy (not "treatment" there is no relevant drugs/surgery/whatever, in a way because there's nothing to really fix, but more things to learn) That's what I meant. I'll admit that I used the wrong word there.
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Fat Pigeon Yeah, you *do* have to learn it and it's probably much better if it's early. Like if you pick GrapheneOS dev I could see them being autistic and ending up in a negative feedback loop when it comes to social skills, which autism really doesn't helps you with. But if you short it to autism, it's quite the wrong direction and it's false, both because neurotypical folks can end up with this kind of problem and because there's autistic folks without it. Like I still have annoying at times social anxiety when it comes to specific things, I could blame me being autistic on it, but it's not the actual cause and I'd rather just give the actual symptoms anyway as I find it more clear to both people and myself. Specially as autism stays but social anxiety is a thing you can more or less get over with, same logic for social skills. > That's what I meant. I'll admit that I used the wrong word there. Kind of triggered me… sorry if I was too harsh in the reply btw.
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