| > I think this has nothing to do with commonality and more to do with the fact everyone I know who is autistic (I work in tech) has been obsessively getting themselves diagnosed with things since they were like 14 like its a religion. I hope you decide to keep that opinion to yourself in the future and not tell people that what they are experiencing isn't real. > Just has a new thing wrong with them weekly So, you see multiple people experiencing a new medical ailment or symptom "every week" and think all these people are faking an issue so well it fools a doctor? What about my severe plaque psoriasis, T-1 Diabetes, and POTS? Am I just imagining the giant red inflamed scaly patches of skin on each one of my joints? Am I just psychosomatically making my body not produce insulin? Im just making up that my blood pressure drops so low from standing too fast that I get tunnel vision? Your opinion causes people like me to spend 20 years of their life to hide and ignore the problems they experience until they are so bad we can't function as human beings anymore. And the sad part of it is, if we (the patients) actually understood what we were dealing with early on in life, a lot of these problems can be avoided. It's a shame so many people share your ignorant opinion and tendency to shame what you can't understand, you'll never comprehend how deeply that effects the people you are saying it about. |
Thing is with those conditions is that there's an objective test you can take, with symptoms that are hard to talk yourself into with other people on the internet
ADHD, not so much