Real title: major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes
But if you read it, thats not what they did. They just re-taxonomized it as multiple different things. This is a good thing but it feels silly to call it a “discovery.”
Like dude, the guy who mastirbates in public and slams his head into walls when he’s frustrated doesnt have the same thing as the guy who started reading at 3 and really likes birding.
It should not have taken this long for the people who fund science to acknowledge this but I’m glad they finally did and…
Here’s the real discovery: those dudes have different genes! Thats right, the first one is non-heritable! Its not even the same thing biologically.
So if they have different presentations and different biologies, why are we calling them both autism??!
I know aspergers was a bad dude but I feel like having a different name for it communicated something important.
Here’s another implication: the people self diagnosing as autistic on TikTok were actually following the rules for autism that clinicians set out: there are no rules and its anything that makes you seem wrong to normies. The big sin of the TikTok self-diagnosees/rs was declaring that the emperor has no cloths!
Damn, yeah. This is so fucking difficult because I’ve met quite a few people who have aspergers (in fact I might be one of them but the only difference is that I feel like I am much more socially conscious), and I just know that they would have no problems getting along.
It truly all comes down to organization, doesn’t it? Like, organizing yourself (or putting yourself in a position) such that you don’t need to hide parts of yourself to blend in with the average person. I realize I’m talking about masking here or whatever, but I’ve always played the role of seeing how fake other people are being but also seeing those with aspergers being used by said fake people and not noticing whatsoever. Going away from tribes was a mistake.