• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
      42·
      4 months ago

      Well you can hear the same song on repeat 272 times and not be autistic, but as far as I can tell, this could be one of the diagnostic criteria.

      From time to time, there’s some new K-pop that my wife goes crazy over, and every single car ride after that will have that song playing multiple times. It’s not on loop only because I would consider throwing us off a cliff if the playlist didn’t have at least 19 other songs on it. :)

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        4 months ago

        OK, so you’ve clearly never had kids. Kids, generally, love hearing some song they like hundreds of times over and over. There’s probably no parent in the last 10 or so years that isn’t sick to death of hearing Bluey songs. That does not automatically make there was kids autistic. Yes, often adults like to do this too. It just means that you like the song or whatever else you’re watching or listening to.

        If anything, it might be classified as slightly neurotic or a little bit obsessive. But it has nothing to do with autism.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      1320·
      4 months ago

      Lol, people on Lemmy thinking they’re not on the spectrum.

      Just because you think something is normal doesn’t make it normal. You’re strange. You’re here.

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
          111·
          4 months ago

          That’s very true. But there’s also a pretty high correlation between neurodivergence (all kinds) and your Linux using, privacy focused, d&d playing, edm and metal listening, caffeine addicted, geeks.

          Not every rectangle is a square, but the front door to Lemmy sure is pretty square shaped.

        • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          4 months ago

          Thank you. Some people are just weird. It’s not a sign of anything other than that. Not everyone fits in a box, and that doesn’t mean they’re suffering from any kind of disorder or syndrome or any other kind of thing.

          But an awful lot of people listen to songs hundreds even thousands of times. That’s totally normal. It just means you like it.

      • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
        113·
        4 months ago

        This is pretty rude to be honest and I can’t believe rhetoric like this gets voted up.

        This trivializes all parties, steers people in wrong directions and generally is just actual unwarranted or wanted, fake medical advice.

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
          5·
          4 months ago

          Sorry, I have trouble identifying when I’m being rude. To me it just seems like obvious pattern matching.

          It’s hardly trivial though. It’s not like I’m sitting here undiagnosed and spouting nonsense. This is my life. And it’s not hard to see myself in many other people here.

          It gets upvoted because those people feel seen and represented. Which is nice for once. To be welcome someplace as a person and not infantalized or shunned.

          And yes, if I start giving medical advice please call me out. But this ain’t that.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      4 months ago

      Right?? I don’t understand why every single person nowadays supposedly has autism and ADHD. If everyone has autism and/or ADHD now, then does anyone really have it?

      Imo, it doesn’t really make sense to turn what are normal human experiences suddenly into disorders now because it’s trendy. If it significantly impairs functioning to the point of things like failing out of school or the inability to hold down a job, then it makes sense to discuss it. Otherwise, I don’t get why it’s so trendy to pathologize common experiences/traits.

      • GladiusB@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Because there are new frontiers to the discovery. I was not aware of the spectrum growing up and was never questioned. But I have many common traits with certain spectrums. Doesn’t mean I have anything. Doesn’t mean I don’t. I haven’t been professionally examined. But it didn’t seem to be as well known as it is now. If a kid truly is on the spectrum, they can know they aren’t alone. Which many of these things can make a kid feel totally alone. So that’s a few reasons.

      • Maalus@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Why should I experience “common experiences / traits” when medication helps? You don’t need your leg to be chopped off before you can take a painkiller.