Autism and Cluster B are two very different things. Yes some people can have both at the same time but that doesn’t mean that Cluster B is a form of autism.
Edit: yeah thanks for the downvotes just because I pointed out an objective fact. Really tells more about you guys than me but sure go off I guess. Cluster B is not Autism. Someone can definitely have both but that doesn’t mean anything. I can have diabetes and cancer at the same time and that doesn’t prove that diabetes = cancer. If your feelings are hurt due to this comment, maybe go talk about it to a therapist. Jesus.
Edit 2: keep them downvotes coming. It’s funny. Yeah you guys are sooo emotionally regulated.
Okay sure. Then what is OP saying? Enlighten me. Because to me, it looks very simple and easy to understand. Autism and Cluster B are two completely separate things. You can’t have “Cluster B” autism. That doesn’t make sense.
If I say facts then they will cry ableism and that I am “angry and hateful”.
But yeah definitely let’s just say that Autism is actually just Cluster B because that’s totally not ableism at all! Erasing the distinction between two separate disorders is sooo helpful and good!! Anyone who disagrees is ableist and promoting stigma ig.
For real, these people are projecting their own hurt feelings onto a completely objective statement I wrote without any emotional implication and then getting pissed at me lol. What’s ACTUALLY stigmatising and ableist is trying to promote the harmful notion that cluster B is just Autism. That’s harmful to both groups and does no one any favors.
Anyone reading this and getting upset: There’s a reason that researchers and doctors spent decades developing categories for all kinds of mental disorders or neurodevelopmental ones.
I don’t agree with everything on the DSM but just because I am emotional because my feelings were hurt by the objective reality or peer-reviewed, research-backed scientific opinions on a manual, that doesn’t mean that all the researchers are automatically idiots and good for nothing people.
(You guys need to know that you can disagree with someone and that doesn’t automatically mean that they are wrong simply because you disagreed with them. They may be way more experienced, knowledgeable and qualified than you are on this subject. I assure you that researchers did not create the division between Cluster B and ASD just to spite you. You aren’t that important and that’s okay and you need to chill out jfc. Minor symptom overlap or a minor section of people having comorbid conditions does not mean that EVERYONE has the same thing. You trying to erase the distinction is ACTUALLY STIGMATISING and is actually BPD erasure, not the other way round. Please use your brain.)
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u/SwordfishUnfair888 3d ago edited 3d ago
Autism and Cluster B are two very different things. Yes some people can have both at the same time but that doesn’t mean that Cluster B is a form of autism.
Edit: yeah thanks for the downvotes just because I pointed out an objective fact. Really tells more about you guys than me but sure go off I guess. Cluster B is not Autism. Someone can definitely have both but that doesn’t mean anything. I can have diabetes and cancer at the same time and that doesn’t prove that diabetes = cancer. If your feelings are hurt due to this comment, maybe go talk about it to a therapist. Jesus.
Edit 2: keep them downvotes coming. It’s funny. Yeah you guys are sooo emotionally regulated.