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Are people here as autistic as everyone jokes that everyone is or is that just humor? In the survey posted a month ago (tongue-in-cheekily) I was forty something percent German and about as much autistic, but that was entertainment. Are people going on diagnosed autism or just vibes?
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I would 100% have been diagnosed with autism as a child if I hadn't been sent to an elderly child psychologist who didn't get the memo that everyone's autistic now. Sensory issues were particularly severe and they did all kinds of bizarre exposure therapy like stuffing me in a beanbag full of plastic ball-pit balls and rolling it around. Just got 'diagnosed' with "some kind of processing disorder we don't have a name for" - notably, I scored very high on the first IQ test, then my score dropped ten points when they introduced one that had a handwriting component because I bombed that part so hard. I grew out of everything just fine; I think if you're smart enough and not too autistic you can just make social interactions your special interest for a year or two and get even better at it than normies. Ended up getting like 60% German and 10% autistic on the test.
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