God, I hate people who do that. There's something fundamentally wrong with them.

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Wait, when did calling someone a normie or normal have to do with autism? Like I understand the link, but I had always it had been about making a distinction between inside and outside of your particular subculture. Like traditionally normies don't know/care about things people on 4chan know/care about, because they're outside of the culture. But the distinction could be for any subculture/interest.

those who self-pathologize

Which describes a good chunk of lemmy.

Describing perfectly normal human foibles, thoughts and feelings: "Look at me! I'm ADHD and autistic and neurodivergent and that makes me totally special! You wouldn't understand."

Motherfuckers need to watch The Breakfast Club. We're all struggling in our own ways, but under the hood we're pretty much all the same.