Is anyone here not autistic?

Hygro

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I cannot think one of you I could confidently say doesn’t seem like you’re on the spectrum. The format doesn’t help. Nor the game that is the source of us coming here. But every person I think “but what about?” Yep definitely them too.


Edit: this should go without saying but we all come with personal, regional, generational etc baggage and this is in no way an insult, a diss, or otherwise pejorative.
 
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I haven't been diagnosed as such, but of course I'm from age before that was common.

Was I one of the people you thought about? If so, what autistic traits do you find in my posting that let you check off on "yep definitely Gori too"?
 
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Didn't we (you and I) have one of these conversations years ago, when you decided you knew more than I did about my medical conditions? Granted, it wasn't about autism. But I still found it annoying.

Yes, I'll admit to some of the items on the checklist of symptoms. But whether the diagnosis fits is a determination to be made by a qualified medical practitioner, not someone just speculating.

This thread is approaching borderline inappropriate, in my opinion. At the very least it should be Red Diamond.
 
I'm a frequent visitor of r/aspergers and I can relate to @MomontheSpectrum (youtuber) a lot.

I might be hypersensitive instead of autistic though.
 
I used to think I might be, then I started living with it and I'm not. People change with the people in their lives tho. Anymore, I get physical pain from the local audio sensitivities(of course not the same) but I'm pretty sure that's classical conditioning.
 
Full combo of ADHD and the 'Tism! You can take my trains from my cold dead hands! :trouble:
 
Didn't we (you and I) have one of these conversations years ago, when you decided you knew more than I did about my medical conditions? Granted, it wasn't about autism. But I still found it annoying.

Yes, I'll admit to some of the items on the checklist of symptoms. But whether the diagnosis fits is a determination to be made by a qualified medical practitioner, not someone just speculating.

This thread is approaching borderline inappropriate, in my opinion. At the very least it should be Red Diamond.
I knew you’d deliver 😁
 
I used to think I might be, then I started living with it and I'm not. People change with the people in their lives tho. Anymore, I get physical pain from the local audio sensitivities(of course not the same) but I'm pretty sure that's classical conditioning.
There are those levels of autism that made us think no definitely not me. When those types of cases were the bulk of diagnoses and the “Asperger’s” people we knew were also in hindsight checking all the boxes minus the need for daily assistance and abilities to communicate, this forum thought only a rare few were autistic.

But I’d be surprised if the percent of genuinely neurotypical, which is the majority of the population, here in OT is breaking into the double digits.
 
I am... pretty sure I am not on the spectrum, nor have ADHD or anything else. But one of my direct relatives have explored the possibility of whether they have just been undiagnosed their whole lives, that topic I find... morbidly interesting.

Maybe there's a correlation between numbers of posts to CFC OT and likelihood of being on the spectrum. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I'm not that frequent of a poster.
 
I am not. I have some things/behaviors/tics that have caused people to sometimes think I do, but that’s really just my other diagnosed stuff I have sometimes making people read the tism.
I used to think this about me. But of the regulars here I’m closer to believing you aren’t. But I’m not convinced at all :devil:
I am... pretty sure I am not on the spectrum, nor have ADHD or anything else. But one of my direct relatives have explored the possibility of whether they have just been undiagnosed their whole lives, that topic I find... morbidly interesting.

Maybe there's a correlation between numbers of posts to CFC OT and likelihood of being on the spectrum. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I'm not that frequent of a poster.
Step 2 in the process :devil:. But I do agree the correlation to post count is probably real. Probably a weaker correlation than signing up, unless maybe it’s to ask a specific game question.
 
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This site sometimes reminds me of this.
 
Not diagnostiqued for anything (so at least it was never crippling enough to warrant a medical check), and I'm very, very wary of self-diagnosis (because if you listen to people, everyone is neurodivergent). But I wouldn't be surprised to be a tad on the spectrum with a touch of ADD (the kind without hyperactivity).
Maybe I'll go get a professional diagnostic one day, if only to be able to unload all my problem off my responsibility and claim it's all because of it :D
 
I knew you’d deliver 😁

I don't need your snark, Hygro. I've been dealing with the worst cold I've had in a decade or more, and there are other stressful things going on.

As I said, there are things about myself that have made me wonder over the years. But I'm not about to try diagnosing myself in a CFCOT thread, and neither should anyone else.

I used to think this about me. But of the regulars here I’m closer to believing you aren’t. But I’m not convinced at all :devil:

Step 2 in the process :devil:. But I do agree the correlation to post count is probably real. Probably a weaker correlation than signing up, unless maybe it’s to ask a specific game question.

Post count? Really? I should ask the guy at TrekBBS who has such a high count that he's over 200,000 and they're not going to add rank lounges beyond the highest already because the person who comes next is about 100,000 less. They'd be a community of two or three people for YEARS. I'm in the second-top rank and I still have less than 20,000 posts there. That's over the course of 17 years. Rank does matter there, since it allows access to a variety of hidden subforums.

On the other hand, I have 30,000+ here, and there are only 20 people with more. I'd have more than I do if my staff forum posts were included. It will be my 20th anniversary here in March.

Hmm. I had over 20k posts in my first account on the CBC.ca news site, and all of those are now inaccessible and no longer count, after everyone had to re-register when they instituted their "real names" policy. I've since accumulated over another 20k posts with my second account. It'd be more if not for their draconian moderating there; they don't even follow their own guidelines.

So does all this posting mean I have autism? I doubt that's any valid indicator. It just means that I've found a lot to say over the past 20 years.
 
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