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@ Bill Cypher
2025-04-17 13:30:02
Anyone who thinks autism is a new thing with rising rates in society should go to a #hamradio meetup. Room full of retired old dudes hyper fixated on a subject for 40 plus years with no social skills. They just weren't diagnosing those guys back then. Go hit the model train and ham radio communities with tests if you want to see a real spike in autism diagnosis. You'll normal out the age distribution curve real quick.
I've worked around and I know how to spot people who are autistic because I am one. I can promise you 90%+ of the internet and cell phone infrastructure you pass your autism theories around on is designed, built, and maintained by autistic people. If we're the disabled ones why aren't you neurotypicals the ones building that shit? Every story I hear about software devs says they are right there with the hardware infrastructure guys if not beating our rates.
Extreme non verbal cases are sad but they are far from the norm. Plenty of not autistic people are stupid as hell too.
I'm serious when I say that functional autistic people don't believe this because we beat neurotypicals at intuitive probability, math, and pattern matching. I can see plain as day his "spike in cases" is really a spike in diagnosis then move on with my life.
I honestly think some of you neurotypicals who buy this theory spend more time worried about the downsides of autism than I do as an autistic person living in it.
Don't make me start reframing and talking about disability accommodations neurotypicals need to function in life like calculators for math most autistic adults could do in their sleep.