💞💪🏼🧡I really really appreciate your take on things. Your "authenticity" (I know, it's a treacherously overused phrase nowadays, & this is a real shame)! And you've a terrific sense of humour! You have realife on the ground provenance, which in my book, makes you very listenable & trustworthy.
@@keymeter1917 Yes, understand, as the types I refer to like to use the phrase "authentic self" for their performance of "unmasking". Although authenticity & creativity are aspects of me. Just unfortunate those words are spoiled by influencers saying they are "creators" trying to unmask their "authentic self" (promoting fake it until you make it). Appreciate the genuine feedback.
You made a very good point that it can be too simplistic to say that "someone is either autistic or they are not". There are ambiguities and while some people are very clearly autistic (or have some other condition) and others are not there is a group whose status is less clear and who might be diagnosed by some clinicians and not by others. I liken it to an exam or test. For the sake of clarity we say that some people have passed a test and others have not; however all their marks are on a continuum. Some people pass unquestionably, others clearly do not but there are those who might pass or fail with some examiners and not with others. Categories are not so clear cut. I understand where these ideas came from - a desire to move away from dismissive responses like "everyone's a bit autistic" or "everyone has those problems / issues" - but it doesn't help to say that the matter is clear-cut..
@@gmlpc7132 also there is overlap with diagnoses. My childhood mutism etc could be attributed to either social anxiety disorder autism spectrum features. There is also inconsistencies between clinicians, assessors & countries. I have seen assessors who aren't clinicians give out pseudo diagnoses. By that, I mean they avoid terms like diagnosis & disorder, to fit their "neuroaffirmative" ideology. Yet still charge stacks or money or request a "donation" (likely a tax dodge). I am considered subthreshold in New Zealand to ASD diagnosis yet still recognised as having clinicially significant features since childhood. Yet seen plenty of people online in US & UK claiming to be diagnosed, who quietly admit they didn't fully meet criteria or they had nothing to notice in childhood or for decades. So say they must have masked without realising it to "pass as neurotypical". I also scored higher in tests than some people who said diagnosed. Regardless, my autism features are considered mild (as is my social anxiety disorder these days). My impairment is considered to be mainly from a mental injury of PTSD tangled with a mood disorder. From trauma. Of course, those who make "autistic" into identity get mad about words like "mild" or "severe".
💞💪🏼🧡I really really appreciate your take on things. Your "authenticity" (I know, it's a treacherously overused phrase nowadays, & this is a real shame)! And you've a terrific sense of humour!
You have realife on the ground provenance, which in my book, makes you very listenable & trustworthy.
@@keymeter1917 Yes, understand, as the types I refer to like to use the phrase "authentic self" for their performance of "unmasking".
Although authenticity & creativity are aspects of me. Just unfortunate those words are spoiled by influencers saying they are "creators" trying to unmask their "authentic self" (promoting fake it until you make it).
Appreciate the genuine feedback.
You made a very good point that it can be too simplistic to say that "someone is either autistic or they are not". There are ambiguities and while some people are very clearly autistic (or have some other condition) and others are not there is a group whose status is less clear and who might be diagnosed by some clinicians and not by others. I liken it to an exam or test. For the sake of clarity we say that some people have passed a test and others have not; however all their marks are on a continuum. Some people pass unquestionably, others clearly do not but there are those who might pass or fail with some examiners and not with others. Categories are not so clear cut. I understand where these ideas came from - a desire to move away from dismissive responses like "everyone's a bit autistic" or "everyone has those problems / issues" - but it doesn't help to say that the matter is clear-cut..
@@gmlpc7132 also there is overlap with diagnoses. My childhood mutism etc could be attributed to either social anxiety disorder autism spectrum features.
There is also inconsistencies between clinicians, assessors & countries. I have seen assessors who aren't clinicians give out pseudo diagnoses. By that, I mean they avoid terms like diagnosis & disorder, to fit their "neuroaffirmative" ideology. Yet still charge stacks or money or request a "donation" (likely a tax dodge).
I am considered subthreshold in New Zealand to ASD diagnosis yet still recognised as having clinicially significant features since childhood. Yet seen plenty of people online in US & UK claiming to be diagnosed, who quietly admit they didn't fully meet criteria or they had nothing to notice in childhood or for decades. So say they must have masked without realising it to "pass as neurotypical".
I also scored higher in tests than some people who said diagnosed.
Regardless, my autism features are considered mild (as is my social anxiety disorder these days). My impairment is considered to be mainly from a mental injury of PTSD tangled with a mood disorder. From trauma.
Of course, those who make "autistic" into identity get mad about words like "mild" or "severe".