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. Just has a new thing wrong with them weekly
> 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.
> What about my severe plaque psoriasis, T-1 Diabetes, and POTS?
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
When people constantly dismiss and mock you like this, treat you like you're the problem, it creates a deep need to find an explanation and justification.
You should try harder to treat autistic people like people, instead of mocking and dismissing things you can't be bothered to try understanding. Comorbidity is a very real thing. Autistic people do have high incidence of comorbid conditions. Your narrow view of the world does not represent universal truth. Hypochondria is common among autistic people, because they commonly have real issues. When everyone refuses to take you seriously, you have to find your own answers. You're the problem here, bud.
