Jesus, everyone wants on the ADHD/autistic train, needs to be “special”. Every post on c/autism is about perfectly normal behaviors and quirks that affect most of us.
I think a lot of it is young people struggling with growing up, as we all do. They think everyone else is doing just fine and they’re the weird one. Motherfuckers need to watch The Breakfast Club, get a clue. We all struggled in much the same ways.
Hell, my first year of college saw me so mixed up I felt like I was going through puberty again, but I recognized that it was merely another phase in life. Happened again in my late 20s. LOL, thought I was cursed to flip out every 10 years. Never happened again thank fucking god.
tbf, improper diets and insufficient medical care, general social isolation made worse by an intentional housing “crisis” that is destroying communities, (and stress itself, exacerbated by those things and job insecurity) can all trigger latent risk anyone might have for X mental Illness…the US is a very sick place, in more ways than one.
us apes are social creatures, we need proper social interaction in order to not go fucking crazy…and right now we have tech/media companies (and governments) all fighting for control over what digital bubbles they want to keep their populations isolated in…and so far they’re winning
the issue is that when i was growing up i didn’t have social media convincing me i had disorders and making endless threads about how my unhappiness is everyone else’s fault… i had to deal with it on my own. I’m sure had I had some autism forum I would have convinced myself I had autism too. I was just a nerd. I still am a nerd and most ‘nerd’ thigns turn most everyone off who isn’t also a nerd, no matter the field. But I also got older and realized my ‘nerd’ level is vastly below many many people, even if it’s far above the average persons. Just like I can ride a bike 100mi in six hours, which most peopel think is insanely fit… but compared to semi pro cyclists it’s painfully slow.
exactly, everyone struggles because that’s just what growing up is. i was suicidal most of my teenage years. i have four nephews and they are going through all the same thoughts and feelings and problems as I did as a kid. it’s just life.
the huge problem is most human beings have zero ability to contextualize themselves in the greater world and realize how good they do have it. they tend to segregate themselves into bubbles and only compare themselves to other people in the bubble and end up supporting each others delusions.
this is why people in rich areas will tell you how poor they are. or smart people at MIT will feel stupid, etc etc. I was top of my high school, but a mediocre college student, and a not a very good grad student, certainly not good enough to become an academic. that’s just life.
Jesus, everyone wants on the ADHD/autistic train, needs to be “special”. Every post on c/autism is about perfectly normal behaviors and quirks that affect most of us.
I think a lot of it is young people struggling with growing up, as we all do. They think everyone else is doing just fine and they’re the weird one. Motherfuckers need to watch The Breakfast Club, get a clue. We all struggled in much the same ways.
Hell, my first year of college saw me so mixed up I felt like I was going through puberty again, but I recognized that it was merely another phase in life. Happened again in my late 20s. LOL, thought I was cursed to flip out every 10 years. Never happened again thank fucking god.
tbf, improper diets and insufficient medical care, general social isolation made worse by an intentional housing “crisis” that is destroying communities, (and stress itself, exacerbated by those things and job insecurity) can all trigger latent risk anyone might have for X mental Illness…the US is a very sick place, in more ways than one.
us apes are social creatures, we need proper social interaction in order to not go fucking crazy…and right now we have tech/media companies (and governments) all fighting for control over what digital bubbles they want to keep their populations isolated in…and so far they’re winning
then go get some social interaction. nobody is stopping you but yourself.
the issue is that when i was growing up i didn’t have social media convincing me i had disorders and making endless threads about how my unhappiness is everyone else’s fault… i had to deal with it on my own. I’m sure had I had some autism forum I would have convinced myself I had autism too. I was just a nerd. I still am a nerd and most ‘nerd’ thigns turn most everyone off who isn’t also a nerd, no matter the field. But I also got older and realized my ‘nerd’ level is vastly below many many people, even if it’s far above the average persons. Just like I can ride a bike 100mi in six hours, which most peopel think is insanely fit… but compared to semi pro cyclists it’s painfully slow.
exactly, everyone struggles because that’s just what growing up is. i was suicidal most of my teenage years. i have four nephews and they are going through all the same thoughts and feelings and problems as I did as a kid. it’s just life.
the huge problem is most human beings have zero ability to contextualize themselves in the greater world and realize how good they do have it. they tend to segregate themselves into bubbles and only compare themselves to other people in the bubble and end up supporting each others delusions.
this is why people in rich areas will tell you how poor they are. or smart people at MIT will feel stupid, etc etc. I was top of my high school, but a mediocre college student, and a not a very good grad student, certainly not good enough to become an academic. that’s just life.