#the same goes for people throwing around narcissist and labelling other people as having ADHD

[punk-raphaelite]

“You know they really hurt my feelings, I don’t think they were thinking about how it would affect me at all and-”

“Maybe they have autism”

Wow, thank you Dr. Instagram Infographic for your well thought out diagnosis. Please tell me how this small anecdote of a person’s behaviour lines up with the diagnostic criteria for autism in your self-assigned non professional opinion. Oh, but you’ve watched enough reels and know enough stereotypes from television that you feel fine throwing it out there like it was nothing.

Whatever happened to “yeah that was shitty of them” or “they sound like an asshole”

What is this need to play armchair psychologist and pathologize every little behaviour of a person you don’t like? It doesn’t make you sound smart, it doesn’t add anything of value to the conversation. You have no idea what you’re talking about, and you’re just muddying the waters when it comes to your and other people’s understanding of what autism actually is.