I really don't know why I'm bothering. I know exactly what will happen, since I'm not the ignorant, alcoholic simpleton you seem to think I am. But one more time
This is clearly going to end well..
So you just read the part you quoted? Because I'm pretty **** sure my point of that entire paragraph was to provide more insight into how disability benefits work in America.
The 'part' I quoted? I quoted the entire paragraph, lol... And for the record, it's not 'impossible to know without a professional', When I told my mother I had it, she responded that she had suspected it when I was young, and brought it up to my school/group home at the time. It was the professionals, that insisted I didn't have it.. Just goes to prove that just because you don't have an official piece of paper, doesn't mean that you're incapable of 'reading the room' so to speak. TBH, that's a mentality that irritates me; like, that people shouldn't research things themselves and should only ever rely on 'professionals' .
Even professionals make mistakes. It's not like they're all-knowing gods on the subject just because they went to school for it. People should be taught to expand their minds and think outside of the box. Not to 'stay in their lane' (general quote). As I said, the trick is to not assume anything for certain without a professional. It's one thing to come up with your own theory and to work with that, it's another to assume you're definitively right without any other outside opinion.
I never said you didn't say "it could be something else," I believe I said when you mention something SPECIFICALLY like you actually did, they will take that and run with it 9 times out of 10 if it's anywhere close to matching what they have.
So now you're the one assuming most people are stupid. And for the record, to correct myself, I don't think most people are stupid, I think most people are ignorant (willfully stupid) because they refuse to think outside of the box that's been built for them by society. But anyone with half a brain knows that relying upon a self-diagnosis to get through life is a bad idea. I only set it there under the context in which it's the last/only resort. But anyone ignorant enough to take a self diagnosis and run with it, then refuse professional help or outside opinion that contradicts their own findings, imho, that's on them, lol.. Like, have a nice life, I told you not to do that, but have fun with your self diagnosis.
Also, if you'd been thoroughly paying attention, you'd realize that even though I say 'most people are idiots' (relatively speaking); I actually tend to assume that they're smart when speaking to them. It's them who (more often than not) prove themselves to be idiots, lol..
And to be frank, I do feel some entitlement to call people out on it. After a lifetime of being treated like a total tard myself just because of my nasally speech and social difficulties; being treated like this by a society that has so little tolerance of people like me, because we don't come copy/paste fresh off the assembly block.. It was like finding a damned gold rush learning what I did about autism (and by connection, about myself). So yea, excuse me if I embellish a little.
you assume I know nothing, which would be wrong.
Actually, to the contrary, I tend to assume people know all that I know (innocent until proven guilty stance), it's only after finding that they don't in which I change things up. If you argue against me, I'm going to explain my side of the argument. If you already know the things I'm explaining then.. don't argue?
And 'besides the point' doesn't necessarily dismiss everything said before it, if the words following that, can in any way be connected to the words before it. Your comment on me assuming you don't know anything seemed to have a potential connection to your apparent skills in plumbing (which again, have nothing to do with anything, lol..).
no, having it doesn't give you any more authority to "sense" it on people than it does any other random person. That would be like saying you can "sense" cancer simply by having it yourself.
This wins the prize for the dumbest thing I've heard all week. Sorry, no offense intended but it is a truly stupid comparison. Obviously I didn't mean 'sense' it like I'm spiderman and my senses are tingling. I mean that I am well aware of all the symptoms that come from having autism, and when someone describes themself in the way the OP did, that resonated with symptoms of autism, as well as much of the specific ways I felt before my own diagnosis.
But maybe if you're talking skin cancer, if someone has skin cancer, they may recognize it on someone else. And on that note, if they didn't say anything, and instead just let it get worse (in the other person), that'd be a bit of a dick move.
Sure I coulda been non-specific about it and just told the guy 'get professional help' but that's a total cliché, and also comes across as completely condescending, rather than empathetic in any way.
Let me ask you this, if you recognize stroke symptoms in a loved one (assuming you know what the stroke symptoms are), do you tell them, 'It looks like you're having symptoms that could be related to an impending stroke.." Or do you blandly and mysteriously just walk up and tell them to go to the DR?
You may see traits here and there, but you couldn't possibly know if it autism or something else.
Hence why I immediately followed that with 'you should look into it (IE; get it checked by a professional).
There are shitty doctors everywhere, especially in places away from big cities where there are little to no people who actually understand anything beyond ADHD/ADD.
Suppose I can agree with that.
People generally tend to want easy answers, so if they look up the traits of autism and it matches, they are going to run with it, whether they have it or not. I've seen it before... even here on this forum, actually.
Maybe, LOL.. But tbh that's on them. They wanna screw up their lives because they're THAT lazy/incompetent, well, that's on them. I don't cater my dialog for ignorant people. IMHO, they should be Darwin'ed outta existence.
Just because I don't go into detail in every single one of my posts and write novels doesn't mean I don't know anything.
But it comes across that way. You know it does. The 'I'm right, you're wrong, shut up now.' stance doesn't exactly win Nobel prizes, lol.. (Yes, obviously nothing in a forum conversation does, I'm just being facetious).
Actually, it resonates well with the term 'If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all'. Just replace 'nice' with 'smart'. Because it only hurts your own image when you insist on coming in to an argument but are unwilling to argue/debate. If you know stuff, say what you know, otherwise don't say you know stuff, or say nothing at all. This isn't the American Civil war of 1862, you're not winning anything with painted logs (AKA; 'Quaker guns').
Because you don't debate, you debase.
Mostly counter attacks because of your presumptuous manner. I prefer to keep hostilities out of debate.