I remember that on Reddit, a few years ago, there was a woman on a subreddit.
I was just looking what was on Reddit and doomscrolling r/shitposting for 20 minutes was more than enough. I decided to just type-in random words to the URL bar to see what subreddits I would stumble upon.
After lots of private and NSFW subs, finally I ended up on r/alone and I found this lady in the sea of “i wanna kill myself soooo baddddd” posts.
The lady was autistic if I remember collectly. She had a boyfriend who also had a mental ilness. Unlike her though, he was violent. He would scream at her for pointless things and shit.
The lady was always confused. At least she seemed so to me. Which is probably the autism. She had a hamster cage and had a brain-injured hamster that she kept because it was sick in the head just like her, as she put it.
Have no idea what happened to her. I still think about her sometimes. It just felt so sad.
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The momma lion making the decision to walk away and leave her paralyzed cub behind. Having him crawl after her, crying in despair was heart-wrenching
On Reddit. That subreddit with pics of people who have passed - last images or something. The picture was a daughter, maybe 7 or 8, asleep on her dad’s arm, with the dad also asleep. The post was by the mom who explained that her daughter died in a house fire and not long after the dad killed himself.
I think about that post and picture now and then. I’ve got a daughter around the same age who often falls asleep on my arm in the same manner. I don’t know what I’d do in the same situation.
This was several years ago. I found the post recently after a lot of searching, but contents had been deleted, and I couldn’t find it on any of the archive sites.
That one video of dashcam footage of a random brick/stone going through a windscreen. The noises of sheer terror and grief they made.
One of the saddest things was a blog by a nanny to a little girl who was born without a face. She had eyes and a mouth, but that was about it other than random folds of skin. The nanny was so sweet, talking about all the operations the girl had had to slowly, over time, build her something resembling a face. The girl herself was apparently really sweet and loving too, but everyone who saw her would react as you might expect.
It just struck me how cruel nature can be sometimes. At least she was born to very wealthy parents, but that was the only perk.
I wonder how she’s getting on now. Must be 18 or so I imagine.
Wtf. The first time I deleted reddit was bc I stumbled upon a depressed woman’s reddit account from I think r/alone. I went through the profile and felt so stalkery and weird knowing such intimate details of a person that I deleted the account and app.
I think it was an infertile woman, had vaginismus I think. Taking meds for depression etc. Posting very personal stories.
Individually no post would strike me. But together, seeing everything. Including love for crochet and some TV show etc made me feel so weird.
To this day I can’t explain what I felt. Like I was in her skin involuntarily. Very bizzare feeling.
I had the exact same experience. It just felt so… eerie, you know? As you said, like I was in her skin involuntarily.
It really is eerie. I guess it comes from the fact that we are basically observers that can’t do anything to her. I don’t know maybe the lack of a face to accociate the life that is laid before us is what causes this.
I heard lots of worse stories that happened to people that I at least know what they look like. The posts on r/alone are just text. You don’t know for sure if the post is someone’s real life or not. Uncertainty. Combine that with a depressing story and BOOM! Eerie feeling.
I’m just speculating though all of this might very well be bullshit.
The lady was autistic if I remember collectly. She had a boyfriend who also had a mental ilness.
Autism isn’t a mental illness.
Oh, my bad. I’m so sorry. I’m not an expert on these things (obviously) I apologize if my comment is somehow offensive. I’m aware that autism is not an mental disorder. I thought it was like the way one’s brain is wired that causes them to have slightly different perception than the rest.
I just decided to group it and other mental illnesses together because I… don’t know dude I was just lazy I guess.
I am so sorry again. I meant no harm.
No offense taken, but thanks for the comment! If someone was offended and they saw your comment, I think it would probably help
I thought it was like the way one’s brain is wired that causes them to have slightly different perception than the rest.
I’m no expert, either, but this is a solid explanation IMO. It’s why autistic people are prone to sensory overload; their brains don’t filter out noise (like the hum of the refrigerator, the sounds of people chewing, or background conversations) the way that most allistic people’s brains do. It also definitely could have been the reason, or at least contributed to, why the woman from your post was confused - particularly if she was trying to figure out why allistic people did something.
Depend on the level. It’s a spectrum, but at some point it do become a illness.
Sorry, that’s incorrect.
Autism is commonly comorbid with mental health disorders (aka “mental illnesses”) like anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc., as well as with intellectual developmental disorders, but autism is still considered, at worst, a neurodevelopmental disorder, regardless of where an individual falls on the spectrum.
Both the DSM-V and ICD-11 are in agreement about this, for what that’s worth, but you could also just do a search for “Is autism a mental illness?” on Duckduckgo, Kagi, Searx, Bing, Google, or whatever, if you want to confirm.
<disclamer>I don’t want to troll, this is a serious comment and I just want to highlight different perspective to improve mutual understanding.</disclamer>
Definition of words depend on the context. They are model to express ideas and have a common understanding of things. A bit like Newtonian model explain why planete orbit around the sun (Until mercury drift comes into play).
If we were on the context of neurological conference or medical comitte, I would completly agree with you. But we are on Internet, on Lemmy, and on a post that don’t even aimed to talk about mental disorder. Stating this, when talking about illness in this context, one refer to high level definition of illness that you’ll first find in the dictionary. According to Oxford dictionary: “a condition in which the body or mind is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; a disease or sickness”
I hope you would agree that, taking only this definition, Autism, at least more extrem cases, respect this definiton.
Adding precision can be usefull, but you’re then changing context. Let’s take an analogy.
My daugther asked me yesterday why the sun rise on a side and fall on the other side of the horizon. I told here it’s because sun rotate around the earth. This explanation is enough to answer the question, and is in the context of talking to a 5 year old girl. There is no need to explain that earth actually rotate on itself and around the sun, and that rotate around galaxy. There is no need to detail about Newtonian mecanic, nor general relativity in this context. This would just add noise to the discussion. The geocentric model is true in this context.
Another analogy. I’m talking about multiplication, and affirm that ab = ba. In this context, without precision, everyone agree with this. But, strickly speaking, multiplication being a binary operation acting inside a group, it’s not always commutative. Typically, matrix multiplication is not commutative. So, ab = ba in the context of algebric structure is false.
As a matematician, there would be no reasons to feel ofended or to claim that ab=ba is false when commenting post talking about, let say, carpentry. You can precise that, when digging into the details, there are cases when ab != ba, to open another discussion, but claiming that ab != ba, in the context of carpentry, is just… wrong.
Worst than that, it generate conflicts. You claim that someone is wrong without arguing, or explaining your own context. Going to the extreme, I’m quite conviced this kind of behavior fuel intolerance, up to the point of having a a retarded redhead elected (I think this will become the new godwin point). Most of people have nothing against Autism, LGBTQRST+, or whatever minorities. But being constantly corrected that “there is no 2 gender”, “autism is not a decease”, “the terms master or blacklist are ofending because it refer to slavery”, etc… just becomes unbearable and makes people fall into intolerance. Not because they have something against the minory itself, but because they feel attacked.
My 2 cents.
This guy autisms
I think I’ve spot the autistic guy.
I’ve spotted the developmentally impaired person.
