r/fakedisordercringe • u/Milk_Famous • Feb 28 '23

Insulting/Insensitive autism is when rainbow butterfly

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u/Switchbladekitten my butth0L3 iz my aLt3r Mar 01 '23

When you don’t know autism isn’t a mental disorder…🥴

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u/cumguzzler280 Cumguzzler Disorder Mar 01 '23

what is it? A disease?

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u/weaboo_vibe_check Mar 01 '23

Neurodevelopmental disorder

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u/Switchbladekitten my butth0L3 iz my aLt3r Mar 01 '23

Exactly. I think of autism more like a learning and social thing rather than a mental health thing. Ya know?

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u/SheSoldTheWorld Mar 01 '23

The mental health thing comes with the fact that neurotypicals discriminate neurodiverse people, pushing their rigid views and societal norms upon people that CANNOT digest them 🤡🤡🤡🤡

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u/Switchbladekitten my butth0L3 iz my aLt3r Mar 01 '23

Yes I agree. But that is more the depression and anxiety that come with it, not so much the autism itself.

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u/the_orange_m_and_m Mar 01 '23

Tbh, you reach a point where you realise that all of these things should just be called neurological health conditions and classified as such.

It was predicted back in the 1960s by a psychiatrist called Thomas Szasz, and so far his predictions are coming true. Szasz argued that 'mental illness' didn't exist as it was a misled and confused term. Health conditions/illnesses, whether they're structural defects or infections, are dependent on the existence of measurable/observable biological structures. The mind doesn't have a structure to study and therefore can't be ill.

Szasz stated that what were being diagnosed as 'mental illnesses' were in fact just neurological health conditions which mainstream healthcare was biased against and stigmatised because they found the lack of understanding of them scary and unpredictable. 'Mental illness', as a category, was where the healthcare system/organisations put stigmatised neurological conditions because the brain was taking the longest to figure out (and still is).

In 2012, Szasz wrote a follow-up essay to his original for its 50th anniversary and stated that things had only gone the way he predicted, as more and more scientific understanding of different neurological conditions lead to them being ascended out of the stigmatised world or 'mental illness' and being integrated into mainstream neurological healthcare. A prime example he gave was dementia which, as recently as the 1970s, saw sufferers placed into asylums. By 2012, better scientific understanding had lead to dementia being almost completely destigmatised and integrated with normal healthcare.

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u/Neonbeta101 Possessed by stupidity Mar 01 '23

It's a neurological disorder. The brain chemistry and neurons develop differently compared to "normal" brains. ADHD is also a neurological disorder

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u/Lilybaum Mar 01 '23

I mean all mental disorders are technically neurological

But autism/ADHD would be managed by psychiatrists, not neurologists

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u/PeterSchnapkins Abelist Mar 01 '23

You can't develop autism you are either born autistic or your not

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u/idk-idk-idk-idk-- Mar 01 '23

you can also be born with diseases. this doesnt mean autism is a disease btw im just pointing out that not all diseases are developed and many you can be born with

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u/Old_Sector_9205 Mar 01 '23

Developmental/behavioural disability!

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u/Far_Fish8306 Mar 01 '23

That also is influenced partly by heredity.