[–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The precise bounderies the particular evaluator uses to determine ASD can at the minimum contain info about the local autism landscape created by that person who works your area. For better or worse. It's useful to know what definitions that are being applied to people by a professional in your local area. People with medical authority and considered well qualified to diagnose ASD are not large in number at times within a local area, so very much influence the local definitions.

Establishing definitions is so important when communicating with people, local or otherwise. The concepts circle back to the Oxford method again.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Diagnosis or not matters in the sense that it is useful intel for you and a tool. Just writing detailed essays and having strict logical structures in forums gets called autism on the internet. But if the internet communities for autism are useful to you and you are doing no harm that is good too.

    Labels and definitions are useful in diffenerent contexts, and I would encourage you (and everyone) to (continue) applying them only as appropriate and beneficial to wellbeing and growth.

    I like the oxford method and defining words and concepts before discussing them with people. You are being very transparent about what subclinical-autism in your case means. I think that honesty is very good and what helps prevent harm.

    Someone doesn't have to be Capital A Autistic with clinical presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorder (>pet peeve: disorder is in the name people! If you are NOT feeling disordered, you likely don't have ASD!<). But being autistic in character or presentation on a subclinical level is valid too. And there are a lot of valid reasons why people cant receive that diagnosis. I know some severely autistic people that arnt diagnosed formally with ASD. I like the words autistic or neurospicy or neurodivergent for that, rather than ASD. I am now adding 'subclinical autism' to my list. Such an interwsting concept.

    I think a lot of fights within the community stem from lack of oxford method definition, argument in bad faith. People conflating terms.

    There are conditions that look a lot like autism, but are not. Other possibilities to consider are a high IQ measurement, OCD, ADHD, or a number of related conditions. All valid. Self-discovery is very valuable for personal development and I would encourage you to explore what voyld be the root causes of the phenomena you are experiencing, while also not leaving the autistic community which benefits greatly from your honest participation.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    They don't necessarily lack the empathy systems, like reptiles. Some just have additional mammalian systems to use their empathy selectively. For their puppies and dogs, empathy on. For minorities or anyone different from them, empathy off.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    In some countries there is workers compensation to cover accidents that happen on the job like breaking a leg. Then the cost of treatment is covered by the healthcare system a person has already paid into their whole life through taxes.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The health benefits and insurance can be sig ificant portion of pay. The min wage burger flippers likely dont get that, even with laws increasing min wage.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    The origninal phrasing was not with the intent to equate "bad behavior" with "psychopaths". Two seperate things. Both human though. May or may not be related to peter theil. Definitely both concepts related to the topic of reptilian conspiracy.

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    Yes, Peter Thiel is an anagram of The Reptile. No, he isn't literally a lizard man, any more biolgically related to a literal reptile than any other human. Unfortunately, his behavior is human. Psychopaths are human.

    I suspect that at least some of the conspiracy theorists saw a lot of "cold-blooded" looking people in in power. Those without empathy, and the mirror neurons needed to produce normal body language and responses that look like candid and emotion- tinted, socially normal human movements.

    It's a known thing that sociopaths and psychopaths can rise to the top in corporate structures. A lot of our "leaders" in politics etc, seem to lack empathy and this could easily be symbolized in someone mind as being lizard-like. The collective hints would be more obvious and disturbing to more sensitive people, causing their minds to do the pattern recognition and symbolisms needed to create reptilian conspiracies.

    So maybe the conspiracy theorists were an early warning for the nonsense we are seeing now in politics.

     

    It struck me that a post not having a million likes doesn't mean that it wasn't seen and recieved by an audience. Nowa days with companies profiling accounts and sharing and selling info with blatant lack of privacy amd trustability, the human audience or readers on a post would be be thinking of the consequences and maybe prefer not to interact. It doesn't mean that the post is useless.

    Especially with the increasong proliferation of bots, it's not like the old days and "likes" and the value of a post are different things.

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