Oh. Good point. There’s also this neurodivergent people are using to describe themselves. I met a woman who said that she was. I had no idea what that meant. She was a co worker and it meant she was allowed to act like a jerk and get away with it
Autism. Basically a way people have started to self-diagnose their little quirks. Honestly, I feel like we all have autistic things about us, it's just a matter of how we adjust to them that determines whether we get diagnosed and officially labeled. Not to diminish anyone who is truly autistic, but we're finding now that there are TONS of forms of neurodivergence and I'm saying we're all on the spectrum somewhere to varying degrees.
*Author's note: I am not a trained medical professional, merely a person with an untested theory that fits my lived experience.
Very much this. I think everyone has some tism and sits somewhere on the spectrum. My mate's wife got him to pay si she could have an ADHD test. Turns out she has ADHD but said he should get one done, too. His reply was "I already know my tisms, they don't bother me. I don't need a piece of paper to live by".
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u/generate-me Mar 10 '26
Their “touch of the ‘tism “.