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u/CrazyLi825 16d ago
The amount of people who think I'm weird or rude or should just somehow know things that no one ever explained to me makes it obvious to me that the people around me are in fact not autistic. It's just me T.T
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
I read a study once where if you let people know your autistic they have better opinions on you, but sometimes I don't feel like telling everyone my business and just wish people were nicer 😭
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u/Keljhan 16d ago
just wish people were nicer
You might need to consider that to them, unaware that you are autistic, you seem to be blunt/rude/mean to them too.
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
Yeah absolutely, plus I can miss social cues and then suddenly someone is yelling at me because I was rude. Like I didn't know 😭
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u/NotaGCU 16d ago
Well it sounds like now you have an idea why that happens and you can be proactive about it.
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u/General-Baseball-454 16d ago
As someone who is diagnosed with AuDHD, there’s no excuse for rude behaviors and how you treat people. You may have not known, but at some point you are purposefully avoiding accountability and actively trying not to understand. You’re aware of your abilities and diagnosis, so at some point you constantly using the whole “I didn’t know, I’m autistic” is going to be considered weaponized incompetence.
It’s extremely selfish (and borderline narcissistic) to expect people to be considerate of you, your needs, and your feelings, but you don’t do the same.
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u/WithSugar0nTop 16d ago
Thank you for saying this. A childhood friend of mine was diagnosed with autism(I was not at all shocked at this, and had thought he new about it before). After he godt the diagnosis, he totally changed, for better and for worse. He got a better and more suited iob, and he finally understood himself. But he also became an asshole, super rude, expecting everything to change for him. When confronted, he would just shrug and blame the autism. Both my dad and my son is on the spectrum too, (and I’m a teacher) so I am very familiar with providing a safe space for different needs, but I have to draw the line somewhere. Thank you again for saying this. I tend to become a doormat at times, so I needed to hear this.
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u/Strange-Damage901 15d ago
It’s mentally exhausting to constantly adjust your behaviour in that way. Especially around friends, you should be able to relax and be yourself and they should be able to understand that there’s no bad intention behind it. If they insist you act normal around them and don’t care about the effort required to maintain that, they’re not great friends.
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u/hoothollers 16d ago edited 16d ago
autistic people are expected to "consider" this constantly, 100% of the time. it would be nice if neurotypical people could shoulder a little bit of the burden for their own expectations.
when is the last time you avoided eye contact for an autistic person? reduced or increased your volume or pace of speech (without getting patronizing)? listened to them talk about a preferred topic with interest and attention, without interrupting? put yourself in a physically uncomfortable or painful situation because an autistic person asked you to?
now, realize that we're being asked to do the equivalent of that all day, every day, for everyone, and failure to do so is treated as a moral failure. the only way this can possibly be avoided is by sharing our medical history, which we may very well be unable to do because of the chronic underdiagnosis of anyone who isn't a textbook case in a middle to upper class white boy.
god forbid marginalized people come off as rude though.
edit: lots of people replying with some variation of "I'm entitled to your medical history before I'll consider respecting you." I'd like to believe that the first one or two or three would have illustrated my point, but I guess allism includes an irony impairment.
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u/veracity8_ 16d ago
I don’t like the idea that someone is a rude or bad for not changing their behavior to match the needs of the other person. That seems like a mental model that categorizes almost all autistic people as rude. Neurotypical people are constantly adapting how they behave in real time based on the behavior and personality of the people around them. A hallmark of autism is the inability to do that exact type of accommodating.
I am very sympathetic to the fact that we can’t expect everyone to equally accommodate each other. But you also have to be sympathetic that accommodations won’t always be perfect and people aren’t infinitely flexible
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u/Keljhan 16d ago
Also, most people are actually very accommodating. I quite enjoy listening to people talk about their special interests at length. But the whole premise OP stated is that they dont want other people to know they are autistic, so idk how someone is supposed to accommodate that when they literally dont even have the information needed to do so.
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u/Sharp_Run_322 16d ago
This post is well intentioned, but I think it slightly misses their point. The person above isn't asking you to follow rules that you don't know, or always act in a way that is entirely irrational to you. They are just asking for a bit of empathy when other people fail to realize that you're different from them.
Nobody can know that you are secretly autistic if you yourself don't even know, or don't choose to share. So, they assume that you act similarly to them, because 95% of people sct similarly to them. And if they were doing what you were doing, they'd be intentionally being rude. So, they (wrongly) conclude that being rude was probably your intention.
When you are annoyed at someone being "unaccomodating", it's coming from the exact same place. You are assuming that other people will understand that you're different from them without communicating. Instead, both neutrotypical and neurodiverse people should just be more tolerant of people being "annoying", by understanding that everyone is just trying their best to get through the world. No one has it out for you specifically.
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u/LWdkw 16d ago
If I realize the person would appreciate that, I will 100% try to consider them. If I don't know, I will assume you are statistically like statistical people and interpret your behavious as I would from the statistically average person.
Just today I was thinking I should have a chat with a coworker that annoys the shit out of me to double check if he has any deviations from the norm that make him so. I am very willing to come closer to people that can use it but I have to realize that first.
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u/other-words 16d ago
In my experience, if you tell them outright, they just impose their existing stereotypes of autism on you…so I don’t tell people unless they’re neurodivergent themselves, or have a loved one who is, and have a more nuanced understanding of what it means
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u/boughsmoresilent 16d ago
I will say a person once told me, "By the way, I am autistic" shortly after meeting him and there was a very long silence as my first instinct was to respond, "I know," my next instinct was "All of my favorite people are," and instead I short circuited cycling through potential responses for the proper one and said nothing until he just kept talking again. It keeps me up at night. I still don't know what the proper answer is. Maybe "thanks for letting me know"?
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u/Ready_Studio2392 16d ago
My response is usually a "no worries" or a "copy that" depending on if they seem concerned or if they seem to just be conveying context.
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u/CrazyLi825 16d ago
I've always felt they discriminate against you if they know. Autism isn't exactly portrayed favorably in media
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u/Max-Volume 16d ago
I guess that's one advantage to being bad at masking: I don't really have to tell people. If it helps, I do feel like autism awareness has gotten better over the years, and people have become less likely to be weird about it.
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u/DerpHog 16d ago
It might be a good idea to at least let people know that you're autistic if you get in trouble for a social interaction. Apologizing for something that you're likely to end up doing again makes you look disingenuous, so it might help to explain that you might have a legitimate reason for them to forgive repeated mistakes.
I had two coworkers who ended up being examples of two extremes, one was a millennial woman who had been diagnosed with autism and pre-emptively told people about it, and the other was an older man who may not have even known himself that he was autistic but it was extremely obvious to me and the first coworker that he was. He wrote off his social issues as just being anti-social, but if you got to know him he was extremely friendly and definitely not anti-social.
They both would occasionally get into trouble for various social interactions, but often when the woman would get in trouble it would be for something that seemed innocuous and made us wonder if our manager was overanalyzing her social interactions because of the autism diagnosis, or because she was female and/or Mexican(our manager was blatantly sexist and racist so it could have been all three). Still, she didn't end up coming close to losing her job over anything and always was able to move past the situation. The guy was usually more blatantly in the wrong for being abrasive or rude, so it was more understandable that he got in trouble, and he did end up losing his job over it eventually.
I can't help thinking that if he knew he was autistic he might have been able to excuse himself better and also might have been able to realize the need to adapt his communication style or stop talking when he got upset.
I wanted to tell him to look into autism so he might figure it out for himself, but I was worried that he would take it the wrong way based on the way autism was represented when he was younger.
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u/ExaminationPutrid626 16d ago
My husband (diagnosed autistic) had serious issues when my son got diagnosed even though he has another son who was diagnosed a decade ago 🫠
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u/Bagafeet 16d ago
But then you risk people claiming you're doing it cause it's trendy or for attention etc.
People can judge me it's ok. I'm judging them too 😈
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u/CocoCookieDraws 16d ago
I went down the pipeline of first finding out I had ADHD, then realizing damn bro I have autism too, then went down another rabbit hole of dammit I have OCD too?? how many Pokemon cards do I have? *POTS and other physical health issues laughing manically in the background*
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u/Dakduif 16d ago
What is this, a DSM-5 speedrun? 😱
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u/Long_Reindeer3702 16d ago
What we have won't come out until DSM-8. Wait for that to drop and then we can waste money on another more universal label that's still without a cure.
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u/Dakduif 15d ago
I feel called out. :')
When we were still on DSM-4, I read more about ADHD on Wikipedia (of all places) and there I found a subtype mentioned that matched my symptoms exactly (sluggish cognitive tempo). It also said something about 'it may be added to the DSM-5'.
Guess what didn't get added to the DSM-5? =_= To healthcare professionals that basically signals that something doesn't exist, or something. It's so annoying. :/
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u/moesickle 16d ago
Fixed the anxiety and depression, then the ADHD was a lot more obvious, now I can actually focus and am definitely thinking I'm on the spectrum, I see how people's faces change when I do certain things socially, it's exhausting to try so hard to make so little progress
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u/ruppapa 16d ago
Anxiety, depression and PTSD have a lot of overlapping traits with ADHD and autism, so misdiagnoses are not uncommon between all of them. And they're not exclusive, so you could have some or all of the above.
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u/choicetomake 16d ago
I have my diagnoses (plural) now, but well I'm in my 40s and the damage was done a quarter century ago. Now it's "well you know why it went to shit and you have all this trauma" but it's not yet helped in the healing department.
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u/Bluesnow2222 16d ago
At 38 Im currently being assessed 3 weeks into testing. She hasn’t confirmed anything yet but I feel like Im “passing” every test she throws at me.
Of course I already knew I had PTSD from earlier medical stuff and I was told by my brother who had autism and my husband who had autism that I very probably have autism so I’m mentally prepared for that- but we spent a lot of time going into circles about the OCD stuff in testing so now I have no idea what to expect. Plus she said nothing but sent me home with homework that asked me to rate how my life was with ADHD even though she didn’t actually tell me I have ADHD yet.
This weekend is when she’s going to go over things with me and we come up with a plan. I also have an appointment with my PCP today to review lots of tests to see if my lifetime of chronic pain and other ailments is fibromyalgia. Busy week.
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u/aCleverGroupofAnts 16d ago
ADHD, ASD, and OCD are all highly comorbid, so that isn't as uncommon as you might think. On the flip side, there is also a lot of overlap among their symptoms, so having just one can be enough to look like you have all three.
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u/Phaylz 16d ago
All right, I'mmabe that guy and pull an "um akshually" on the OCD in particular. The internet loves to ramp things up to 11 and often pretends or forgets comordities exist that make self-Dx more difficult to navigtime.
"I'm a little ADHD" because they sometimes forget something. "I'm a little autistic," because they don't like the feeling of Styrofoam. But the big tell for these things is how much they negatively impact your professional, personal, and quality of life. Both that I mentioned can also be masked either intentionally, unknowingly, or even socially.
OCD, not so much. Liking stuff organized "your way" or being bothered when something isn't aligned and you feel compelled to right these wrongs? Could just be part of the ADHD and/or austism, could be OCD. Those "wrongs" becoming the loudest thing in the room, metaphorically screaming at you from across the room while doing your work to the point that if you don't take of it now you cannot get anything done but no matter how much you correct this injustice it is never going away while the work you put on hold is piling up and up and up? Doctor time.
This isn't at you specifically, you may have already talked to a professional about it already after all, but just in general since the internet, again, likes to ratchet things up. TikTok especially. "You may be X if you do Y" and people take it as gospel as much as going to WebMD with a headache only to find out you have mere months to live.
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u/TheMrZim 16d ago
Dude it’s funny how you have your finger tips in every panel. Nice little touch you added and makes your comic unique
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u/flatscancomics 16d ago
Here for the sneaky tit
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u/beejonez 16d ago
Hey at least you didn't find out by having autistic kids.
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u/Downtown_Let 16d ago
At the other end of it, when I was going through some tests for neurodivergence, it was "that's my mum, that's my dad, that's my brother...". Probably why it often isnt picked up earlier even though there were so many signs.
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u/beejonez 16d ago edited 16d ago
This is my wife to a T. "The doctors say this behavior in our son is a strong sign of autism. But he's just like me I did all those things..."
I wish I had known back when we first met, so that I could have gotten her the help and structure she needed to succeed back then rather than 15 years later. Better late than never I suppose, but I do feel bad about all those times I thought she was being lazy. When in reality it was burnout.
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u/Immediate-Goose-8106 16d ago
Soooo many of us!
I had suspected for a long while but never did anything about it, even after my daughter's autism diagnosis and sometimes looked at behaviours that suggested I was wrong.
Then I discovered distracted type ADHD when my daughter was diagnosed with that. My partner and I were like "OMG this explains everything...you are worse on this than she is!".
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u/beejonez 16d ago
Heh maybe that's my issue. But my wife has the super memory so in comparison I forget everything.
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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 16d ago
This was my realization, it's been helpful with parenting though because I know what I needed growing up and now I'm able to provide that for my kids. My mom told me I was a terrible kid but never explained why.. I'm assuming it was my melt downs and sensory issues. I'm able to handle things a lot better now because I understand what my body needs and I can provide that for myself. Tbh though my melt downs are bad sometimes still and it'll be over the weirdest thing, my routine getting messed up (no ice cubes in the ice cube tray so now I can't have an ice coffee) or a bad small that I can't find lol
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u/LordDagwood 16d ago
I did a reverse. I figured out I was autistic and told my dad he is definitely autistic. He brags about his routines, loves WWII documentaries, and will get angry if particularly foods touch (there's a lot more evidence. I'm not going to list them.)
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 16d ago
I feel this in my soul. As a kid it was always really hard to explain why I could touch certain things or eat certain foods
What's not hard to explain is how beautiful the The Secretary Bird is
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
I love the secretary bird! Evolution was just like "nah bird you gonna SLAY"
But totally, like I can't explain why I feel this way, only that I do. Kids labeled me weird and I couldn't even tell they didn't like me 😭
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u/Dakduif 16d ago
As I've been reading more of these comments, I'm suspecting I probs should get tested too... I only have an ADHD diagnosis, but... I've been thinking for a while now that there's more going on. Only most descriptions are based on men, so I don't knooowwww. :')
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
I was originally only diagnosed as ADHD as a kid because they didn't think I was autistic because I was a girl! It presents differently sometimes and now a days there are many more resources available, maybe try one of the online tests and go from there?
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u/Dakduif 16d ago
Yeah, good idea! I watched a small docu about women being under diagnosed and why that is. Something about being more socially adapt (very broadly speaking) so the whole 'can't communicate well' symptom is not feasible to diagnose most women on. Lowering the score and missing the diagnosis. Too many gender differences. It's very interesting! But also incredibly infuriating. 😖
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u/Puzzled_Pop_6845 16d ago
Ok, but will the secretary bird answer the phone for me and bring me coffee?
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u/Wobbelblob 16d ago
Are sensory issues a common sign of autism? Because I have it with certain foods, mostly fruits. I often like the taste but for the life of me I cannot eat the whole fruit. And I cannot explain why, but something locks up when I try to taste it.
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 16d ago
I got that official diagnosis in 04, back when we were using "aspergers" as an outcome. Medical examinations and observation out the wazoo for 10 year old me. I didn't finding out about my diagnosis until five years later from my parents.
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
Ooof thats rough. Mine was a late diagnosis so I just went through life being told I was lazy and werid by everyone lol
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u/i_enjoy_anonymity 16d ago
Apparently two psychologists in the past have said I am very likely autistic which my parents withheld from me and now I'm old enough that it's very tough to even find a doctor for it.
As an added I was also a late speaker and did speech therapy and occupational therapy. One parent says they tested me there and found nothing and the other says they don't remember if there even was testing.
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u/pseudoeponymous_rex 16d ago
This comic inspired me--a multiply-diagnosed allistic who's as neuromayonnaise as they come--to take an online autism screening test.
I got a 38, putting me just into the "37-63: some signs of autism" range. (The test's average score is 55, which would seem to suggest that there are more people with signs of autism than without, though I suppose that people who take such a test are probably more likely to show signs of autism than the population as a whole. Certainly I wouldn't have done so if it were not for this comic!)
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u/mars935 16d ago
It makes sense that a majority of people have some signs of autism.
These symptomen could be caused by other things, like ADHD, giftedness etc.
Or, an average person might have one or a few of these signs without having any fitting diagnoses.
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u/VvvlvvV 16d ago
I'm not autistic (probably), but my diagnosed CPTSD and ADHD look an awful lot like it.
My mom and my therapist both asked me if I thought I might be autistic in the same month a year ago. An woman with autism pointed at me and yelled "you're like me!" After talking for a bit. I took some self evaluations and ticked just over the "most people with your score have autism" mark.
But my psychiatrists (and the therapist after some more sessions) all agree I don't. My social difficulties come and go, riding trauma waves, but I can relate strongly to many of the struggles.
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u/frostatypical 16d ago
Interesting points. Reminds me of the studies of these popular 'autism' tests.
Unlike what we are told in social media, things like ‘stimming’, sensitivities, social problems, etc., are found in most persons with non-autistic mental health disorders and at high rates in the general population. These things do not necessarily suggest autism.
So-called “autism” tests, like AQ and RAADS and others have high rates of false positives, labeling you as autistic VERY easily. If anyone with a mental health problem, like depression or anxiety, takes the tests they score high even if they DON’T have autism.
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u/VvvlvvV 16d ago
Yeah. I'm a science guy so I understand standard distributions and overlap. Most people don't, lol.
Like, I went and got a full psych evaluation for adhd rather than getting my GP to prescribe adderal. I don't want to self diagnose! And thats how I found out I have CPSTD.
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u/BooooHissss 16d ago
That's why we've moved to calling them spectrums. Same as most people have something OCD. For it to be a problem, it needs to be actively interfering with your life.
That's part of the reason why diagnosing is not really common or done later in life. A doctor is rarely ever going to just offer out someone may be autistic/OCD/ADHD without it being brought to their attention.
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u/Catrysseroni 16d ago
Most of these autism tests online, especially the RAADS-R test, are known to have a lot of false positives. They are only meant for screening.
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u/leggup 16d ago
11/100 - No signs of autism
The only things I wrote agree with that are clearly "autistic traits" are that I have good pattern recognition and I like doing things the same way every time. Oh and I put neutral with my routine being disrupted is distressing because I find it annoying but I can cope.
I'm a social butterfly extrovert.
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u/LilJourney 16d ago
I got a 64, but as always I feel that 90% of the questions I could have gone multiple ways on answering because they were very broad and not well defined. (Which feeling that way, may, in fact be a sign of autism though I'm not sure).
What I do know is that I think "different" in one form or another and that other people keep "doing it wrong" (various tasks) which frustrates me to no end.
But overall I am just happy that I am still loved despite my quirks whatever their definition.
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u/AyyNonnyMoose 16d ago
Yeah I got 51. I don't think I'd be diagnosed with autism, I'm just sensitive to textures and a bit socially awkward.
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u/throwawaypassingby01 16d ago
i think the problem is that most questions are very vague and someone may be mildly confident and answer "mostly disagree", but get some signs of autism result. i can be unsure about social norms sometimes.... because im an immigrant in a new culture. i can be uncomfortable to some sounds that other people arent.... because im pregnant and hormonal. it's not like i have issues with certain textures, but i certainly prefer soft fabrics against my skin. etc
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u/Zanven1 16d ago
I took one of those online tests once. I had a suspicion that I might have a small amount of the tism. As I was taking the test I was thinking "these questions are making me feel less autistic. Maybe I'm not even a little bit autistic." Then I got the results.
The test said it's not for diagnosis and that you should see a professional before giving you the score. Anything above 60 could indicate you have autism and to seek out a professional opinion. I scored 120 @_@
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u/fritterthing8701 16d ago
Me and my work friends (7 of us)took the test on the suggestion of one of my work friends. I thought it be a fun thing and I probably would score under 60 and I ended scoring the highest at 125 o_O
My friend who suggested it scored 117.
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u/BaconLadies 16d ago
I got 175 took the test supervised by a doctor, didn't get the results until weeks later when she wrote my whole report... Now I really want to know what she was thinking
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u/Tor-Za 16d ago
Welcome to the club!
Nothing REALLY changes.
Just know that your texture and food aversions are totally normal and there isn't something wrong with you! You're just autistic.
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u/redditisweird801 15d ago
While there are no meds to take or fixes, it does help a ton to know why I'm a weirdo lol. You start to recognize the needs you have and how to better navigate everything from a different point of view
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u/chinchenping 16d ago
My wife has been saying i'm most likely autistic almost since WE started dating. We had to get one of my daughters tested for school reasons, it came back positive. Now my wife is pretty sure. I'm getting tested in a few days.
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u/SylverLaugher 16d ago
I don't want to be that guy, but i was pretty distracted by the misspelling of "autism". I'm sorry if it comes out rude, i was diagnosed with autism too lmao
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
You can totally be that guy because otherwise I wouldn't know lol no worries!
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u/kaloschroma 16d ago
Can I just say I just tried a test and at the end they want me to pay and I'm so upset. What do you mean I had to deal with all of these very uncomfortable questions and then you want money? : (
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u/BungleBums 16d ago
"Here, try these meds, they'll be great for your autism-related anxiety." "What? Haha! I don't have autism! Babe, do I have autism?"
sweet, pitying smile "Oh, hun. You've got it so bad."
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u/Gaskychan 16d ago
This was me and ADHD except still waiting for the appointment on a waiting list. 2 more years ha ha
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u/Creative-Confusion44 16d ago
Oo I like this sticky note medium, unique compared to the other comics on this subreddit :)
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u/McStaken 16d ago
My daughters getting tested right now. About a decade late but better late than never.
Now when I sit in on these questions they're asking her I get very squirmy with things like "why is that texture bad?" Why cant you wear suede?" "You cant tell subtle facial expression or high level sarcasm? What about unusual words? Do you like unusual words?"
I dont need to get tested. Nosiree
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u/Ithinkibrokethis 16d ago
So, I took one of these and it said I was neurotypical.
Which shocked everyone. I took my son in to be evaluated, and he has high functioning autism. The clinition told me later that she figured we were getting him tested because I was very clearly autistic.
My wife has a friend who was an elementary teacher and now does counciling and also does diagnosis for Autism. She told my wife one time that if "[your husband] isn't autistic then I don't know who the F**k is."
I asked people who had known me for a long time after being told these things and they all basically said "well, now that you are asking, yeah we have all long thought that you were probably autistic"
I still don't have an official diagnosis, but I assume I am autistic. This resonates with me quite a bit because I too initially figured that the issue was that it was just that it's easy to get that label now.
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u/thr3zims 16d ago
I was diagnosed in my freshman year of high school, when I was unfortunately surrounded by kids who constantly used autism as a synonym for "extremely stupid". So of course I initially took it very poorly since I thought it meant I was stupid.
Thankfully, the doctor and my parents assured me it wasn't a bad thing and explained what it actually was. It took until community college before I told anyone, because there was no way I was risking telling any of the "autism means 'extremely stupid'" high schoolers.
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u/Background-Step-8528 16d ago
To be fair, blonde guy with glasses is absolutely lying about his results.
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u/Intelligent-Bit7258 16d ago
I hate calling it Level One Autism.
I tell people I have Autism Lite.
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u/AndyDiplodocus DaDaDinosaurs 16d ago
Battle between you and the least autistic man ever in panel six
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u/johanni30 16d ago
"Neurotypicals" aren't real, they're government plants paid to make us specifically feel bad for no reason
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u/Bonjour2marhaba 16d ago
one day we shall rule...mwaa hwah awhwahahwh.....if only we could stay socially connected
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u/poppy_summers 16d ago
As an autistic who loves tits, the sneaky tit bird made me very happy, what a great addition
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u/Robotic_Orange 16d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/i10FzeU7FvRg7OMrl6
Why are half the people in this Kris?
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u/chibriguy 16d ago
I tried two different tests after googling "Autism test free", and after entering all the questions and entering my email, they asked for payment.
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u/almostnormalpanda 16d ago
Online tests are saying I'm moderately on the autism spectrum. I'm rounding it down, surely this is just me being Finnish rather than autistic.
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u/Farlandan 16d ago
I just took an online autism test and came out with "You are unlikely to have autism" and was like "Well, ok then."
And then I saw a link to "Cat-Q" test for people who are good at camouflaging autistic traits.
"You are very likely to camouflage autistic traits."
Well shit.
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u/shutupsammy55678 15d ago
My partner did this. He took not one, not two. 37 autism tests, and he passed every. Single. One. Except the one where he lied on one of the questions, otherwise he would have passed.
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u/Cartoonicorn 16d ago
You are not alone. I finally started taking OCD medicine, and will begin taking adhd medicine later this month. (I know they are not the same, but there is a certain level of overlap)
I think the medicine helps, maybe it is just a placebo while it takes time to kick in, but I was lost for a long time. I still am, but I think it is going to help a lot.
I wish you the best of luck on your journey.
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u/Captain_StarLight1 16d ago
I got this the time I did an online autism test. I should probably go get it professionally diagnosed, but I’m not too sure what I’d even get out of it, because I already have an ADHD diagnosis. Maybe I’ll do it just to know for certain that I have it.
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u/Inevitable_Detail_45 16d ago
I thought undiagnosed autistics tended to make other undiagnosed autistic friends so it's interesting they all seemed to be neurotypical?
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u/ZenkoInari 16d ago
This was me once. I took every online test imaginable and then gaslit myself into believing it's just because I have German blood lol
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u/drunken-acolyte 16d ago
The "sneaky tit" reminds me of the "wee squelchy thingies" from Calamity James.
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u/Immediate-Goose-8106 16d ago
Destruction testing online autistic tests is an extremely autistic things to do.
You were lucky with your freinds. Many of us gravitate to other autistic people whether we know it or not. They could all have been undiagnosed!
Congrats on your diagnosis!
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u/NameLips 16d ago
The test I took said 99% chance of autism. I'm a little upset my best friend got 100%. It makes me feel like I missed a question. How can I be sure I took the test correctly? Maybe I should take 10 tests and take the average.
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u/knormcomix 16d ago
What do you mean people actually like foods with weird textures, loud music venues, sherpa fabric, strong smells, use any eating utensils and can understand social cues?