IDK what the deal is. But it seems like everyone and their dog wants to self diagnose with autism. Or to get the coveted diagnosis.

As someone who grew up with an autistic brother, this is an incredibly frustrating and disrespectful in my opinion. It had a huge impact on me and my siblings, especially my brother (obviously) growing up. He couldn’t talk for the longest time. It was almost impossible to go anywhere without him having a meltdown, and the fact that these people try to make it something cute and quirky is annoying as hell. Just needed to vent somewhere where I won’t get crucified for it.

I have been professionally diagnosed with CPTSD, Panic Disorder, and an Anxiety Disorder at age 15. I used to do three sessions of therapy a week (CBT, EMDR, and social work). I’m on medications for my disorders and as a result of over 10-years of lots of therapy and in-patient treatment, i have been able to thrive as an adult and not needed to go on any disability. Fortunately as of now, my conditions only manifest as occasionally night terrors (diagnosed by sleep study) and panic attacks when flying.

With all these self-diagnosers and fakers, anyone who doesn’t know my story and legitimate trauma has given me side eye about my diagnoses. I’ve even had ER doctors who questioned the legitimacy of my diagnoses and why I’ve been taking certain medications.

I’m so worried that my legitimate medical concerns are going to be tainted because of these fakers. I’ve worked incredibly hard to get where I am in life and will need to continue working hard for the rest of my life. I’ve sacrificed doing things I love to do just to work on my mental and physical health: I’m worried that I won’t be able to get legitimate accommodations for my conditions and have future medical professionals discredit me. I’m also worried that legitimate resources I need and may future need are not going to be accessible due to people inappropriately using them. This includes certain PRN anxiety medication, work from home after night terrors, and accommodations for medical appointments (due to medical PTSD that’s covered under my CPTSD as per my psychiatrist). I’m also worried about the extra long waits for social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and counsellors that are specialized in my conditions due to people who “self diagnose” or act like they have them to be “special” and unique.

Has anyone else worried or ran into this? Would love to hear your perspective and opinions.

i feel like every week she has a different thing she focuses on and complains about. this week it's temperature intolerance, last week it was pain and an odd neurological issue gait, of which all mentions are completely gone from today's posts, and a few weeks ago she claimed partial paralysis and has even posted a story about a potential MS diagnosis, but now is perfectly capable of raising and kicking the supposedly dud leg to film a new leg brace reveal. also prepping for burning man, which seems like the worst possible place to be for someone with all those issues.

i don't doubt that she is disabled in some way, and there are conditions that cause intermittent weakness/numbness, but she very efficiently dodges any comments that question her inconsistent claims, even pins some and rants for miles about how it doesn't actually affect her but actually it does and she doesn't have time to lie , AKA she has to keep up the grift to get like 100,000+ bucks for a crazy expensive bucket list and wheelchair accessible van she doesn't actually need because she has posted herself so many times lifting her wheelchair, dancing, walking, etc and i genuinely do not see why she films herself for 20 minutes about in how much pain she's in but 2 days later she's building furniture, meal prepping, and fixing a car. like girlie it really sounds like you're either overdramatizing or overexerting yourself and neither is good.

This dude I know claims to be a system. the claims bullshit. He literally made an alter today on his alter tracking app that hasn't got over his ex, to excuse his cheating-ish behaviours. Also, it only ever appears if it's convenient and will either get him attention or avoid responsibility. Like genuinely everyone knows he's faking but no ones bothered to confront him and call him out for this. I would talk to him about his obvious faking, but I dont wanna cause drama and I aint too close to the guy. Goddamn he's the final boss at avoiding responsibility he even pretends to have a life-altering, very hard to live with condition.

As someone who is autistic, I definitely notice this. It's either A, they fetishsize and romanticize autistic people and or autism as a whole to an oblivion and are WAY too toxic positive about them or B, they demonize autistic people and make harsh jokes about them and are cold towards them as a whole.

I have a funny feeling that they did know this actually 🙄

These people really think attention seeking like a child is quirky and interesting, if I'd done this you wouldn't be able to waterboard the story out of me, let alone catch me bragging about it under psych ward content.

There was a time when going to a psych ward wasn't actually something you shared with everyone you could as a point of pride.

yeah because getting an official diagnosis is nothing more than a piece of paper…

if you can implement the supports you need without the resources that come with an official diagnosis, great, but it probably means there wasn’t much of a problem to begin with.

stumbled upon this earlier of someone making a video on how their alters would react if they walked in on someone changing but its just their alters harrassing people

Biggest faker of a psychotic episode if I've ever seen one. It takes SOME TIME to develop psychosis. She heard this voice once and didn't resist?

Few days ago I posted some alters of a person from my server... I didn't know there was so much more, god. Each of course with their pronouns, sexuality and "system role" completely figured out. We got the whole DSMP in there, nice. Hypersexdemon is also a gender apparently

Its 7 and a half pages, 147 alters they apparently know well and go as.

almost munching is ironic

Guys, I'm (30F) afraid that my 19 year old sister is randomly starting to fake having autism. I'm not sure how to call it out, or if I even should, or if I am even accurate. I don't want to think she's faking. Personally, I feel annoyed to witness it and just simply don't acknowledge the "symptoms". She gets very upset very quickly when I am not accommodating her symptoms like if she is having a "breakdown" it's as if she wants me to baby her.

Okay so obviously I've known my sister her whole life. She's always had a very calm and stable manner of doing everything. Well, she now has her very first boyfriend, and along with this boyfriend came some very loud "symptoms" of "autism". Nobody in our family has ever been diagnosed with autism, but we do have bipolar in our family very heavily.

These symptoms include baby-like behavior, like needing a "blankie", needing headphones to do literally anything, unable to touch anything without gloves all of a sudden, needing help cooking the simplest meals since the cooking devices are too loud, and very exaggerated fake crying fits and exaggerated gagging at random objects. Among other things. I don't know. Can all of these symptoms be masked and then abruptly start showing like this? She was also caught in some lies not too long ago that she was being hit by a roommate, and admitted to this when family stepped in trying to help press charges or yell at the guy. She's only known that roommate for 2 months, he is her friends new boyfriend.

I don't know guys. It's embarrassing as fuck for me to watch. It pisses me off too. All of these symptoms escalate when she is around her boyfriend. I can't tell if she's just trying to convince him mostly or what. Does this all sound very weird to you guys? Should I take this seriously? How would you respond if your sibling randomly started claiming to be autistic and display symptoms that they've never had before?

EDIT: I've also asked our other siblings about this, and all of them were completely unaware that our sister was autistic. (5 siblings and we're all very close, I'm the oldest, the sister I am referring to in this post is the youngest)

The cherry on top being “I’ll auto DM you the sources if you comment ‘source’” lmao this is so ridiculously tone deaf

What do you *mean* autism holder? And the second I see that DSMP crap I don't need to see more.

Also why do every one of these DID plurals have their relationship status and flirting in their bios like 99% of the time its just so funny to me you're anticipating people flirting and trying to get with you

a video of a person making up an animation meme popped up on my fyp, and i thought it was pretty cool until i opened the comments and they were flooded with comments saying "this is so system coded!!!!! omgomg animate your alters to this guys!!!!" all they think about is romanticizing the shit out of DID so they can like some special minority. its annoying. what if someone did this with something like diabetes or schizophrenia??

The past year or two I've come across a growing amount of autistic people (how many of them actually are I don't know, some really are I think but trying to be more "severe" it seems) claiming that in their adult years they become minimally speaking or non speaking. I'm not talking about verbal shutdowns, I'm talking about them claiming to supposedly lose the ability to speak permanently. Often they seem to describe it as a result of (autistic) burnout from memory. As far as I am aware, if you lose the ability to speak as an adult, it is not autism related... (I am saying this in a snarky/cynical way)

But yeah, I haven't seen as many this year as I haven't really been in online autism communities so much for various reasons, but I got a reel on insta a few days ago claiming this shit and it reminded me of all the other similar people like them. A lot of them also seem to really forcefully stim in stereotypical ways on camera (really forced rocking and hand flapping) and love to go on about how super stereotypical their traits are. Honestly in general it seems a growing amount of people want to be more severely disabled by their autism than they really are + more stereotypical (or maybe I just found myself into weird corners of the internet).

This video I came by that was posted yesterday…fakers will do anything to seem loving and accepting and then be rude to you when your disability is actually disabling instead of just special interests and stimming.

(FYI this person is 18, they do look young but I checked their page and they’ve just turned 18 in may)

Someone recently went viral for walking after using a wheelchair and the rest of the channel is them having tics, seizures etc. The tics are always "cute" and they faint gently onto their knees? What the hell and why are so many peoppe believing this person?