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Where’s the line though? I feel like a lot of symptoms can crossover into things like anxiety or ADD and people might disqualify themselves because they don’t have some of the more stereotypical symptoms
It’s just that most of the symptoms of things like autism and adhd are things that we all experience, but to a different extent.
And when people watch TikToks saying “ever feel awkward in social situations? You’re probably autistic!” it gets a little out of hand.
Lol what, this is completely false
Explain
False equivalency. You’re either pregnant or you’re not - there’s no spectrum to it. It’s not a good comparison, as someone else in the comments humorously pointed out.
I don’t understand. In order to be diagnosed with autism, you must have deficits in social communication across three criteria groups (reciprocity, nonverbal communication, developing/ maintaining relationships) and repetitive, restrictive behaviors. The symptoms can change in severity throughout your life, but must be present throughout your entire life. And the symptoms can’t better be explained by intellectual disabilities.
Like, you either meet those criteria or you don’t. The spectrum is for those who meet all the criteria above as a way of explaining how different all of us with ASD are. My nibling is high support needs, nonverbal but I, as a low support needs adult, understand him better than I get most of my allistic peers. Allistic individuals might identify with parts of autism, but that doesn’t make them autistic unless they meet the above criteria
