/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

Social interactions and relationships. Symptoms may include:
>Significant problems developing nonverbal communication skills, such as eye-to-eye gazing, facial expressions, and body posture.
>Failure to establish friendships with children the same age.
>Lack of interest in sharing enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people.
>Lack of empathy. People with autism may have difficulty understanding another person's feelings, such as pain or sorrow.
Verbal and nonverbal communication. Symptoms may include:
>Delay in, or lack of, learning to talk. As many as 40% of people with autism never speak.1
>Problems taking steps to start a conversation. Also, people with autism have difficulties continuing a conversation after it has begun.
>Stereotyped and repetitive use of language. People with autism often repeat over and over a phrase they have heard previously (echolalia).
>Difficulty understanding their listener's perspective. For example, a person with autism may not understand that someone is using humor. They may interpret the communication word for word and fail to catch the implied meaning.
Limited interests in activities or play. Symptoms may include:
>An unusual focus on pieces. Younger children with autism often focus on parts of toys, such as the wheels on a car, rather than playing with the entire toy.
>Preoccupation with certain topics. For example, older children and adults may be fascinated by video games, trading cards, or license plates.
>A need for sameness and routines. For example, a child with autism may always need to eat bread before salad and insist on driving the same route every day to school.
>Stereotyped behaviors. These may include body rocking and hand flapping.

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But that's exactly what autism looks like.

>>1657
>Significant problems developing nonverbal communication skills, such as eye-to-eye gazing, facial expressions, and body posture.

>Lack of empathy. People with autism may have difficulty understanding another person's feelings, such as pain or sorrow.

>Problems taking steps to start a conversation. Also, people with autism have difficulties continuing a conversation after it has begun.

>Stereotyped and repetitive use of language. People with autism often repeat over and over a phrase they have heard previously (echolalia).

>Difficulty understanding their listener's perspective. For example, a person with autism may not understand that someone is using humor. They may interpret the communication word for word and fail to catch the implied meaning.

>An unusual focus on pieces. Younger children with autism often focus on parts of toys, such as the wheels on a car, rather than playing with the entire toy.

>Preoccupation with certain topics. For example, older children and adults may be fascinated by video games, trading cards, or license plates.

These all describe me perfectly (as well as some of the others to a lesser extent), but I've never been diagnosed with autism before.

My linguistic development was precocious, I never had a problem relating to others, and the only things that could be described 'pathological' about me were my fixation with political and social systems on an academic level to the point where I'd filterlessly sperg about whatever philosophical obsession I was currently undergoing, but this in itself implies an ability to infer meaning and think abstractly.

Yet I was diagnosed with "it's wrong to have the mind of a man" autism. Autism's a fake disease. Deal.(USER FAKED HAVING A DISEASE FOR THIS POST)

>>3188
>I was diagnosed with autism wrongly
>Therefore autism is a fake disease so doctors, corporations and governments can make money off of paying for their survival
I thought higher of the people here on /mental/. So you're not a sperg. What are you and why are you here? No, I'm not an autismo or a sperg, but only a full-blown retard would say it's not real, so I guess maybe you belong here.

Pseudo-scientific kids basing everything on their life experiences piss me right off. Holy shit, you sound so arrogant and le enlightened. Narcissism maybe?

>>3189
One of the following two are likely:
- Narcissism
-Manic psychosis (in half of these politsperg episodes I would babble almost schizophasically)

Possibly even both. Beats me. But just the fact that, like all of psychiatry, these kids rarely have MRIs done to investigate the true biological origin of their neurological pathology (ditto with myself), would suggest that the entire field is equivalent to neurochemical gnosticism with an almost astrology-table-like predication in symptomal appearance alone.

>>3194

i think you just described the psychiatric institution perfectly

>>3195
I should think so. I've spent long enough under the aegis of its abuse to understand its method of operation. Actually, one rather honest psychiatrist (a Jew of all things) pretty much admitted to me that I was entirely correct, and then discharged me for good. We were amacable about it, no hard feelings and all. I was most pleased on that day.

>>3189
You seem to be an angry person.

>>3203
Just calling out hypocrisy. I bet him/you think he's/you're all troubled and special, while autistic people aren't really autistic, they just like to rock back and forth and memorize license plates, and they don't talk or respond to social cues because they're too lazy.

>>3208

alot of the time i don't respond to social cues cause i don't understand the person is saying. it either comes out as gibberish or i won't understand they are trying to communicate to me

>>1657
>can't into eye contact: check
>can't carry conversation: check
>stereotyped and repetitive use of language: check
>preoccupation with certain topics: check
>stereotyped behaviors: check
>An unusual focus on pieces: check

Guys i'm scared, do i have autism?
Or do i need to have all of the symptoms to be autism positive?