• wedge@multiverse.soulism.net
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    3 days ago

    This is just autistic munchausen’s. Everyone wants to be special without the effort and we’ve romanticized mental illness.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      There are also other conditions whose symptoms score really high on autism screeners. Certain types of PTSD, for example.

      Kind of like how some people who give up wheat and feel better think they’re gluten intolerant, but it was actually the FODMAPs.