Everyone's a little Autistic.

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The more accurate statement is most people have some autistic traits.

Three basic reasons people say Everyone’s a little autistic

1. Lack of and incorrect knowledge about autism.

2. Misguided attempt to be sympathetic via bonding over “something we have in common”.

3. To scold by implicitly saying “We all have our problems, the reason I am successful and you are not is because you are an attention seeking snowflake, Stop whining, try harder”.

It is hard to know the intent behind the statement, thus knowing whether to be put off, or pissed off.

When they knew I'm autistic, they couldn't seem to say that to me.

Probably because I don't mask.
The way I pass in public is more like not being too impulsive as opposed to social inhibitions and masking.

My own type of autism is more than just the social awkwardness and everyday "flaws" or usual forms of human error.

When they look at me, they won't see social awkwardness or quirkiness, they see something else that they wouldn't able to relate. Some people could see it.


And when they try to parallel my experiences and traits to theirs, I can always explain how that will fall out.

It's almost as different as being a native who just awkwardly do not vibe from a crowd, from being a foreigner abroad that cannot go home.
"Everyone is awkward/feel like they're out of place sometimes" but is the latter the norm's perpetual reality? Clearly not.

Or that their occasional forgetfulness and clumsiness do not routinely make them go back and forth and waste more time and energy, or break things in accident.
Like, they can't seem to fathom that and how annoying that would be.

Or that their own version of sensory intolerance is a preference, and not a lack of filter -- do they, like, wear hearing aides that do not modulate background noise and loudness for basically 24/7?
Like yeah. That'll make them think if their brand of intolerance is something completely unegotiable as opposed to some occasional stuff one had to bear for maturity's sake.

Or their brand of interest engagement or passion is the same.
Well, I'll pretend that walking is my special interest, and challenge them to walk several hours straight without a break or an outcome or goal in mind except for just walking -- and disregard the weather, the time, hunger and thirst -- and pretend to do this for the lulz. They'd likely back out.


And the way I process language is blatantly too different from some, that their everyday confusions from me is very clear even disregarding all the body language and tone factors -- they would had to brace themselves from getting me or themselves confused by me.

Or that strangers even point it out themselves.
It more or less helps that I do not give an impression that I was even raised on the same city, the way I speak had a distinct way to it and my appearance suggests different lineage.


So no...
I can very much embody being this unrelatable and unquestionable form of autism without being "a severe case" or accuse me of "acting special".

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I don't call myself autistic. I refer to myself as an Aspie here. Sometimes I might use "autistic" when posting but I still don't count myself as autistic. But other people here will, and this is an autism forum, so I'm not going to expect everyone to play my game, but it's just how I feel. Autism is too strong a term for me. But that's just my take on my own diagnosis, I'm not trying to tell others how to use the A-word.

Before I got assessed for ADHD people kept telling me not to because ADHD are traits that everyone has - even other Aspies/autistics on the internet said this. They were like "you have to be severely forgetful to be diagnosed with ADHD". Um, really? Because if I was that severely forgetful I think I'd be getting diagnosed with Dementia, not ADHD.

False. I am not a little autistic, I am a lot autistic.

Jokes aside, in what I'm sure is going to be an unpopular opinion here, no one is "a little autistic", you either are or you aren't. There is no autism "spectrum", and the only difference between "high" and "low" functioning autism is the level of privilege the patient has (access to early intervention, tutors, therapists, etc.). Autism is very frequently comorbid with other disorders of the mind, and flattening them all into one diagnosis is inevitably going to cause more problems than it could possibly solve.

If there's no autism spectrum then why is it called the autism spectrum?

I feel only a "little" autistic, but that's not the same as when an NT says it.

No everyone is NOT a little bit Autistic.

This saying needs to be put to bed. Another one that is just a bad is "OMG I'm sooo OCD about that".

There are real people in this world that have disorders like ASD and OCD that struggle everyday, and saying things like that really shows how out of touch and insensitive these people are.

Saying the correct clinical name of the disorder has become the new more socially acceptable way to say ret*d. I've heard teenage boys saying things like "dude, wtf is wrong with you, are you Autistic or something?", that is way worse than saying the word ret*d in my books.

I'm all for free speech and I would never want to see someone fined or arrested for saying something like that, but it's just in bad taste and shows poor character.

Anyway, there's my long answer to a short question, Lol.

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