r/AutisticPeeps • u/Murky-South9706 ASD • 3d ago
Social Media Someone shared this with me the other day and my mind was blown.
They shared a YouTube video with me and I was like, "oh I'll watch this, this seems relevant to things today"
I had no idea, though, about how bad tiktok is with this stuff... Literally fully TD people on there saying they're autistic and then gatekeeping!? Like wtf this is insane! Isn't this illegal somehow?
I was sitting here thinking it was just a few people here or there that maybe they were just a little confused about the criteria, but apparently there is an entire movement of people today trying to erase autism as a diagnosis like what the literal duck!? I'm so mad to learn about this!
Anyway, thank you for sharing that video with me, whoever you are (it was in this sub so, I'm sure you'll know who you are).
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u/SemperSimple 2d ago
YES, I'm also mid 30s and had NO IDEA how batshit dumb they were being over on tiktok?? I found this out a few days ago when I came across a youtube about girls wearing "Siren Clothes" at the office "trend" it was straight up 1990s slut porn clothes. I'm not even exaggerating. The government really should have ban the app like they promised twice over. It's a cesspit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXX7jO4a-6g&ab_channel=SusannahFriesen
time stamps for snapshots are 7:08 / 8:36 / 9:59 / 11:23 (all 5 seconds long)
just to show you how not crazy I am in my statement jfc
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u/tinkerballer 2d ago
Wow that is the most unbelievable, ridiculous trend I’ve seen in a while. I believe in feminism and I think those young women need to realise how many decades of women came before them fighting for their rights to workplace equality. Dressing like you’re in a sexy secretary romance novel is unprofessional and it’s naive to think that how you dress has no impact on your work. Men in offices would be just as foolish to turn up to work in leather or shorts or unbuttoned shirts, so it’s not a matter of gender inequality that you can be fired for wearing TikTok costumes that break the office policies on dress.
I struggle with understanding unwritten rules with things like clothing, such as when the dress code is “smart casual”. I don’t know what that means by itself so I’d have to ask for clarification and more specific information. But (for me anyway) I’ve seen offices enough in movies and TV that I have a pretty well formed idea of what it looks like, and yeah the “office siren” seems so self centred and attention seeking that I can tell easily that it’s not appropriate.
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u/Murky-South9706 ASD 2d ago
That's literally all it's about, just attention. Turning oneself into an object of sexual attention isn't feminism, it's the opposite.
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u/SemperSimple 2d ago
All I can figure, if I'm being nice, is that these children who became young adults.. grew up late teens/early 20s in the pandemic time and it just.... fucked up their reference level.
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u/Murky-South9706 ASD 2d ago
Wow. Yeah those girls need to touch grass lol but now they're fired so I guess they have plenty of time to touch grass 🤷♀️
People get more and more ignorant as the years go on it's ludicrous
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u/Common-Page-8596-2 3d ago
What does TD stand for? I'm unfamiliar with the term
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u/Murky-South9706 ASD 3d ago
Typically developing, meaning someone that doesn't have a neurodevelopmental disorder. TD is the academic term for them.
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u/Simsalabimsen 2d ago
Thanks for asking. I had never heard it before, and short acronyms are difficult to look up.
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u/Curious_Dog2528 Autism and Depression 3d ago
I’ve gone on other “autism” subreddits and they accused me of gatekeeping because I was against self diagnosis