There’s a difference between “that’s a bit annoying” and “I literally can’t think of anything else and I must tear off the tag even if I destroy the shirt and I mean RIGHT now or I’m getting naked”
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garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s no way this is an autistic only trait right? You’re telling me people just go around dealing with those things?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
troot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
If you take a single trait, it’s almost never autistic or whatever only. But it can be a common one among autistic people.
But there are people who don’t care about tags and let them in their clothes.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I read your comment, thought “Am I dealing with one?” and had to reach into my shirt to check if it had one or not. It turns out it does! So… I guess so. I’m irregular in other ways, though, so I might not be a good point of comparison.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Autist here:
I either buy shirts that don’t have them, or use a seam ripper to take them off, when I get them.
Yeah, they’re so annoying that I have a whole pre-planned way of handling this, lol.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I confirm i have one, well two, but i can’t tell exactly. The annoying ones are usually long. Also you better not start thinking about these little things because it’s like virus.
No really don’t even start to think about it.
guy@piefed.social 1 month ago
I leave those on too, isunless they’re the variety that’s more stale than usual. Those bastards itch
Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The only time I think about them is if I’m dressing in the dark and need to orient a t-shirt
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve never not ripped one off. Reee, I guess.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Its annoying to normies.
It causes more or less significant to extreme mental and physical anguish to many autists.
Many autists have basically heightened levels of awareness with one or many of their physical senses, as compared to non autists.
Like, I frequently notice minor visual details in the world around me, that most other people completely miss, tell me I’m lying when I say I saw them, then they go check and are angry that I was right.
Same thing with heightened sensitivity to bright light, as well as extreme repulsion from certain color palettes.
Or, same kind of thing with sounds. Myself, a lot of other autistic people get extremely irritated by low intensity, but perisistent sounds that are either very high or very low frequency … that most people don’t notice untill you tell them to stop and focus, then, they can hear them.
But for autists it is… sometimes literally so annoying it will drive you mad. It causes actual pain from how stressed it makes you.
Its why autists and noise canceling headphones are a thing.
Most ‘ASMR’ videos?
I’d rather run into brick wall at 20 mph.
ASMR is a thing, but, as a genre of content, its largely a bunch of idiots making the most annoying and aggravating sounds possible, and acting like its soothing.
tl:dr; yeah, its not an autistic only thing, but something like this is fucking kryptonite to autists.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have sound sensitivity as well, but actually love asmr when it’s done correctly. But you’re right, the majority of it is garbage.
Thanks! I was curious because I have other traits that have been labelled as neurodivergent by my therapists but I’m not diagnosed or anything so I never know if something is “normal” or not.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah!
Real, actual ASMR is very neat, when done properly…
… but, these days, its mostly idiots that have warped it from an actual, specific, biophysical effect, into a massively bastardized basicslly just flavor of slop content.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
because most US therapists don’t know that much about autism.
Fun fact - many textbooks still say girls can’t be autistic. I tutor psychology occasionally and I’ve seen it more than once.
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s kinda concerning how people often are taking normal reactions/behaviors and labeling them as autistic or ADHD.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Say it louder for the people in the back.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
Nah, I’m just diabetic.
Oh wait, I go to the doctor for that…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m not sure if it applies to autism to the same degree, but that’s actually one of the main problems with ADHD:
Most of our symptoms are things that neurotypicals struggle with too, but taken to 11 because of congenital differences in neurochemistry including but in no way limited to chronic dopamine deficiency.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 1 month ago
There is an issue in autistic individuals with textures. And it’s an issue you can’t really understand if you don’t suffer it. Yeah, I dress by texture rather than fashion. And those tags are hellish to me and many other autistic people in ways that only them understand.
It’s kinda concerning and pretty annoying when some people start with the “this is a normal reaction, not an autistic thing”.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Infuriating since annoyances are equated with real suffering. I always try to explain that yes, there are things which NT can experience but they have a scale from 0 to 100 and ND scale can be wildly off like > 4000% which can cause a whole range of psychological as well as physical issues.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yep.
And while > 4000% is hyperbolic, a whole lot of normies just refuse to entertain the notion that you’re being serious, not hysterical, that this kind of thing is actually fairly well studied.
Its like guys just telling gals ‘its just a period, how bad can it be?’ or gals telling guys ‘its just a flu, how bad can it be?’
Yeah, hard to quantify precisely, along some universal scale… but that is because there is no universal scale, different people experience different levels of measurable agony differently.
starik@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food. All you can think about is eating. It’s very distracting. It’s an ADHD thing 🤷♀️
ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ironically I often forget to eat and get trapped in binge/fast cycles unless I painstakingly log every single thing I eat.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Btw, a simple alarm on the phone helps me remember when it’s time for a meal in my whack schedule.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
That is literally so easy, I regularly do it by accident because I hyperfocus on some nonsense.
guy@piefed.social 1 month ago
Took me fourteen hours to fix a problem yesterday. I bet it would have taken 4 if I had eaten something during the troubleshooting
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Same with OCD
stray@pawb.social 1 month ago
Coughing can’t possibly be a symptom of any illness because I sometimes cough without being sick.
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’m not saying it’s never the case I’m just saying people need to stop self diagnosing themselves and others.