Source: Octavia Trotter
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)
Autism
6796 readers
1 users here now
A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.
We have created our own instance! Visit Autism Place the following community for more info.
Community:
Values
- Acceptance
- Openness
- Understanding
- Equality
- Reciprocity
- Mutuality
- Love
Rules
- No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments e.g: racism, sexism, religious hatred, homophobia, gatekeeping, trolling.
- Posts must be related to autism, off-topic discussions happen in the matrix chat.
- Your posts must include a text body. It doesn't have to be long, it just needs to be descriptive.
- Do not request donations.
- Be respectful in discussions.
- Do not post misinformation.
- Mark NSFW content accordingly.
- Do not promote Autism Speaks.
- General Lemmy World rules.
Encouraged
- Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype.
- Funny memes.
- Respectful venting.
- Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
- Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
- Questions regarding autism.
- Questions on confusing situations.
- Seeking and sharing support.
- Engagement in our community's values.
- Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user.
- Please report questionable posts and let the mods deal with it. Chat Room
- We have a chat room! Want to engage in dialogue? Come join us at the community's Matrix Chat.
.
Helpful Resources
- Are you seeking education, support groups, and more? Take a look at our list of helpful resources.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I love seeing everyone's results and how disparate they are, further proving the point of the post.
Btw here's mine but I'm not diagnosed.
I sometimes have slight random problems with my motor skills and speaking, so I wonder if I might be on a spectrum, lol.
π π§
You know how long I've been trying to teach people this? Thank freaking god there are people out there who understand this besides me.
I will admit, it is getting better. Back in the late 2000-early 2010's I dreaded going to the doctor, because they'd see I was autistic on my chart. Once that happened they'd start using simple words and start talking like they're Dora The Explorer trying to get the audience to say "Map"
Nowadays they see that and instead they just ask me questions about whether or not I have a good support network, if everything at home is okay, and how my mental health is doing in general.
Thankfully these days people no longer think of Rain Man when they hear autism, they think of Sonichu instead, which is sadly an improvement.
"No I'm not a child, I just like Sonic The Hedgehog comic books despite being way past the intended age group."
Rain Man is interesting to me, not because of the movie itself (I actually despite it and blame it for a lot of the mistreatment I suffered at the hands of everyone who got their idea of an autistic person from that), but because it shows the passage of time.
Today it's an incredibly offensive and inaccurate portrayal of an autistic individual that is remembered for its cliches and is mocked more than beloved. When it was released, it was incredibly bold and progressive.
I imagine there's probably a similar movie for LGBTQ+ persons where now it's insanely offensive, but back then it was considered incredibly Pro-LGBT, but I can't think of anything right now.
I just wanted to add, that it was SO MUCH WORSE if I had family visiting me during an extended stay in the hospital or if I was chaperoned by someone else (Even if it was obvious they were just my ride and nothing more)
Because doctors would laugh at anything I said, praise me for being "so smart", and tell whoever was with me what they found in testing and how they were going to treat it instead of me... With the obvious intent being for them to "dumb it down" for me.
The end result was just me glaring angrily at the doctor as if to say "I'm sitting right here and I understand everything you're saying, you're just being rude!"
If I actually said that though they'd ask if I "got that from TV"
EVERYTHING INTELLIGENT said by an autistic person back then was assumed by my peers to be just someone copying something they heard on TV.
The idea that there was a distinction between low functioning and high functioning autistic persons didn't seem to click. It's gotten a lot better thankfully, there seems to be more education about these things.
That said Hollywood and TV still hasn't learned anything, as now Autistic people are shown as being a flanderization of Data from Star Trek, all smart, no personality. Though Hollywood and TV still doesn't understand neuro divergence in general, as we're still seeing the "Obviously someone with other personalities means that there are only two, and one of them is evil."
That said credit to Jojo and The Simpsons for doing the subversion of "The main person is evil, the other personality is good", as that's as close as I've seen to that happening in real life. Even then it's usually "One is cynical and jaded, and the other is innocent and childlike."
I can't not see a Stand chart.
I remember someone taking the test that gives the pie chart and making a code with it that lined it up with jojo stands
ACCURATE
This seems more relevant here. https://lemm.ee/post/29731747
Is this supposed to be a link to a post about blankets?
Sort of. It shows what appears to be a 4 dimensional object.
Oh, I see. I was confused as to how it relates to the OP but I get out now.
Itβs more like a gamut.
A spectrum is usually drawn similar to the one on the left. But the point of a spectrum is that its not "where on the spectrum are you"... It is not one point on the spectrum. As drawn on the left, the spectrum represents possibilities. Normally a spectrum would be drawn to indicate how much of each possibility a thing covers.
Eg, the spectrum for light emission of a lamp might be :
Which means it has a bit varying of every color but is heavily green and orange, but probably looks just like white to the naked eye. Swap "green" for "language" etc and you have a spectrum.
Aren't the OP circle spectrum supposed to be filled out like this:
Edit: I do agree the linear spectra can (and obviously do) look like what you posted.
Also I just searched circular spectrum to find the one I posted. I neither agree nor disagree with it. I didn't actually read where it came from.
As an engineer, I concur.
Although I would make one adjustment:
It is not one point on the spectrum.
Theoretically, it can be a single point regarding the reference unit (here, the colour). Consider ideal laserlight for example, there you have just one specific wavelength, i.e., a single colour. The magnitude might differ, but it would be a single point in a mathematical sense.
No feelings of attraction in there?
I would submit that even the second model is not accurate as it is more than 2 dimensions.
left is casual autism, the right is ranked
Moderate Symptoms according to test
"Your autism spectrum symptoms are high".
Ok. It's not like I can do anything at this point anyway.
:3
I have moderate symptoms, according to this test.
Poor eye contact and abnormal postures have their own categories? I've always lumped them together as "poor body control"
Eye contact aversion isnβt necessarily poor body control, itβs been studied quite a bit from various angles and found that people with autism who avoid eye contact do so because they feel actual discomfort, which can be found with fmri in combination with eye tracking software. In milder cases, the aversion is like an inversion of normal social sensations (that is, NT people feel similarly uncomfortable avoiding gaze as ASD with mild aversion do meeting it). In worse cases, it appears to be an over activation of a facial recognition system that produces intense distress.
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-those-with-autism-eye-contact-isn-t-just-weird-it-s-distressing
As far as I know, I am not autistic. I was curious though and took the test. I am just depressed, among other problems. Also in therapy for that. So that is reflected in the results. I also got the message "Your autism symptoms are low".
Thanks for the link though! I will forward it to an aquaitance of mine who is wondering whether they might be autistic. They already booked an appointment with specialists in order to investigate that.
This is what I usually link people to: https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient
I got around 86% on that test, these tests are not good do to people having mental illness, as they will go down a rabbit hole and act out ASD.
Yes, it's not encouraged for people with other mental disorders to seek autism diagnosis because of how likely those people are to get a false positive for autism.
Similar; I was just curious and took it. Though I have a sibling that is diagnosed autistic, and I'm kinda wanting to be evaluated for it. I suffer from depression + anxiety, hard (and a lot of these questions I was like "that depends on the context") and I've been in a much, much worse mental state than I am currently. So those values make sense, the rest are kind of "huh... interesting".
Is that the autism pride flag