About 50% of the time they are indeed autistic, and I just choose to ignore rather than engage. I started doing this in 2002, and it greatly improved my Reddit experience.
I’ve kept this “growth hack” to myself because this excercise has made me painfully aware of what Reddit’s demographics are, so I know exactly the type of comments that I’m going to get.
But damnit, it works.
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Am I autistic?
I’m autistic.
Let’s see if this works and it gets people to fuck off.
Plenty of “autistic” just see some mild similarities with high functioning autism or Asperger’s and self-diagnose, quite often, they are not even adult, far less have any qualifications to diagnose someone else.