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I swear I've never been diagnosed autistic but I do so many of these memes.
The impacts of autism aren't platform exclusive, you have experience them on any hardware.
But these memes are also often relatable to the baseline experience of living under capitalism.
i didnt think i was autistic for a long time because how its described a lot of times has nothing to do with the subjective experience of being autistic. its all how our behavior impacts others, which is really fucking ambiguous and poorly defined. i didnt really figure out what autism really was until i looked at a bunch of autism memes and saw the comments of autistic people talking about their experiences and realized i shared most of those experiences, to the point i could believe i wrote the comments and just forgot. since then ive realized a lot of people are autistic without realizing it because the diagnostic criteria is so stereotyped and really doesnt describe most autistic people. keep browsing, you might identify with the memes for a reason lol.
That's how I found out I was nuerospicy too. It was painfully obvious looking back.