I thought the same, but it happens that people understand on a theoretical level, but can’t actually conceptualize it, because their life experience is just different. So, they might understand that appointments are challenging for you, but couldn’t possibly imagine that it takes up your whole day.

Most of the memes here are not “autism things”. Maybe a certain pattern of these occurences and traits are. But each and every meme you see on here is a prolific trait, made into a format for impulsive consumption, reposted to everywhere and everything it can be reposted to.

I aint autistic as far as I know. As far as Im concerned, these memes are more like “ah mai gad, I feel so weird” and ADHD memes are “Ah mai Gawd I feel like I cant do anything”. That is why I like them in my feed.

Conditions under a general umbrella like these can be very elusive to diagnose. I have been playing a cat mouse game with myself for years to get to know my psyche and it still had little progress.

This meme is just general anxiety by the way.

Look up neurodivergent

Almost everyone i know that is on the spectrum has some overlap with other neurodivergent stuff. I am pretty sure were just part of a minority normal and for some reason neurotypical majority normal felt like the only way to make sense of us is by categorizing people centered about the different subsets of challenges they face within the context often their often narrow minded and asocial world.

Classical diagnosis can be a useful tool to obtain sometimes much needed acknowledgement and accommodation but Its who we are from an outsider’s perspective.

The Neurodivergent movement is a people first approach started by the autistic and adhd community. Its who we are from our own perspectives. Its absolutely possible you fit non of the classical diagnosis criteria as a unique neurodivergent person.

I have both, but it’s in general an executive dysfunction thing, which can happen in both and other conditions.

I swear, having adhd is a full time job