Comment on It makes me shudder
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 2 months agoIt’s kinda concerning how people often are taking normal reactions/behaviors and labeling them as autistic or ADHD.
I’m not sure if it applies to autism to the same degree, but that’s actually one of the main problems with ADHD:
Most of our symptoms are things that neurotypicals struggle with too, but taken to 11 because of congenital differences in neurochemistry including but in no way limited to chronic dopamine deficiency.
There is an issue in autistic individuals with textures. And it’s an issue you can’t really understand if you don’t suffer it. Yeah, I dress by texture rather than fashion. And those tags are hellish to me and many other autistic people in ways that only them understand.
It’s kinda concerning and pretty annoying when some people start with the “this is a normal reaction, not an autistic thing”.
Infuriating since annoyances are equated with real suffering. I always try to explain that yes, there are things which NT can experience but they have a scale from 0 to 100 and ND scale can be wildly off like > 4000% which can cause a whole range of psychological as well as physical issues.
Yep.
And while > 4000% is hyperbolic, a whole lot of normies just refuse to entertain the notion that you’re being serious, not hysterical, that this kind of thing is actually fairly well studied.
Its like guys just telling gals ‘its just a period, how bad can it be?’ or gals telling guys ‘its just a flu, how bad can it be?’
Yeah, hard to quantify precisely, along some universal scale… but that is because there is no universal scale, different people experience different levels of measurable agony differently.
I disagree (it necessarily being hyperbolic), by now it’s been proven we can have “real” physical pain (and thereby also damage). Maybe the number sounds exaggerated but we don’t know.
You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food. All you can think about is eating. It’s very distracting. It’s an ADHD thing 🤷♀️
ironically I often forget to eat and get trapped in binge/fast cycles unless I painstakingly log every single thing I eat.
Erm, late for me to learn but if so: shaking is a symptom from having to eat?
Btw, a simple alarm on the phone helps me remember when it’s time for a meal in my whack schedule.
You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food.
That is literally so easy, I regularly do it by accident because I hyperfocus on some nonsense.
Took me fourteen hours to fix a problem yesterday. I bet it would have taken 4 if I had eaten something during the troubleshooting
Yes but is that worth the utter and complete agony of stopping what you’re doing and then starting again 10 minutes later? /s
Same with OCD
Coughing can’t possibly be a symptom of any illness because I sometimes cough without being sick.
I’m not saying it’s never the case I’m just saying people need to stop self diagnosing themselves and others.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
Say it louder for the people in the back.
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
Much obliged.
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months ago
Nah, I’m just diabetic.
Oh wait, I go to the doctor for that…