OrphieBaby, baby pandabun! 💙 on Nostr: Autism isn't infinite though. It's finite. There are only so many symptoms autism ...
Autism isn't infinite though. It's finite. There are only so many symptoms autism itself can include, and they all come from the same source.
Think of it this way. "Autistic people are known for..." Come up with any symptoms or traits? Sure you did, because autism has specific symptoms. Does every autistic person do all of them? No, but that doesn't negate the fact.
It's like when people try to tell me that anime is "a huge, wide, infinite range of styles", and I have to tell them "then why can you look at a picture of just eyes and say 'That is anime. Undoubtedly and only anime. If it's not made by a Japanese person, it was copied off of anime specifically'?"
People are honestly really bad at pattern recognition; and with something as new as autism and how many people want to feel special by claiming they have it "because it can be anything", we are a loooong way from people accepting how much of a mess this whole "defining autism" situation is.
Think of it this way. "Autistic people are known for..." Come up with any symptoms or traits? Sure you did, because autism has specific symptoms. Does every autistic person do all of them? No, but that doesn't negate the fact.
It's like when people try to tell me that anime is "a huge, wide, infinite range of styles", and I have to tell them "then why can you look at a picture of just eyes and say 'That is anime. Undoubtedly and only anime. If it's not made by a Japanese person, it was copied off of anime specifically'?"
People are honestly really bad at pattern recognition; and with something as new as autism and how many people want to feel special by claiming they have it "because it can be anything", we are a loooong way from people accepting how much of a mess this whole "defining autism" situation is.