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People downplaying autism

NAS63036
over 5 years ago

So I am finding people very frustrating. When you talk about your day to day struggles (because they ask) and people respond with “oh I’m like that too!” Or “isn’t everyone like that? Oh I must have autism too” and I’m just like what is going on with the world??? Anyone else had these issues with people????

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  • over 5 years ago

    My experience of suffering from neurological disorders per se (abi + autism) is that most people do one of 3 things in response to my displaying or description of my symptoms.

    1. Trivialise “oh but you’re not THAT bad, I mean you can still do X”.
    2. Normalise “Oh yeah, me too, I do that ALL the time”.
    3. Invalidate “I think you’re making out it’s a lot worse than it is”.

    I still haven’t managed to work out which one is more annoying Rolling eyes

  • over 5 years ago in reply to Kitsune

    It is even more annoying when your own mother does all three, because they are a narcissist. By that I mean someone that downplays the abuse I suffered as a child and my condition, in order to accentuate and magnify their own abuse and condition to obtain sympathy.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to CallMeBob

    That seems awful! I’m so sorry that you’ve had to suffer that!

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