There’s absolutely nothing cute or light-hearted about someone pretending to have a diagnosis. If you’re afraid you might have some type of disorder, it’s on you to be an adult and find a doctor to help you determine if that’s the case or not.
But what would you do if your partner started parading around, pretending to have a disorder, then got mad at you when they told them to stop and get officially diagnosed?
Several months ago, this 32-year-old man’s girlfriend, who is the same age as him, came across a video on TikTok that discussed 5 indications you could have autism.
Well, ever since she watched it, she’s been persuaded to believe that she is definitely on the spectrum.
“Her reasons? She always felt she was different. She never had many good friends, only a trusted few. She routinely does things like cleaning. She always had very specific hobbies, like animals and books,” he explained.
“At first I thought she was joking, but soon she started beginning sentences with ‘As an autistic person…’ on a daily basis. Whenever she messes something up, she now says, ‘Oh, that’s because of my autism, I don’t always know when I do something wrong.”
Then, his girlfriend began making reels on Instagram centered on how it’s too difficult for her to not be normal. His problem with this is that his girlfriend doesn’t struggle to read social cues or faces.
She finds interacting with people easy. She’s an extrovert. She’s got a rather open personality. She loves concerts and clubs far more than he does.
He knows that there is absolutely no way his girlfriend has autism, yet she’s been playing that card left and right, convinced she does have it.
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“Now, whenever we go out and meet new people, she makes sure to tell them she’s autistic right away, and it’s insanely embarrassing to watch them slowly realize she’s talking [nonsense],” he added.
“Yesterday, at a house party, a couple we just met came up to me and started asking questions about ‘living with an autistic person.’ That made me snap, and I straight up told them she’s not.”
“When we returned home, I told my girlfriend to either get an official diagnosis or stop telling everybody about ‘her autism’ like it’s a fun personality quirk, because it’s embarrassing and, frankly, insulting to people with actual autism. She started crying, told me she doesn’t need a diagnosis because she ‘just knows,’ sarcastically thanked me for my ‘support,’ and went to bed.”
This morning, his girlfriend got up and went off to work without speaking to him at all. He’s left wondering if he’s been too dramatic or not getting the whole picture.
His girlfriend is a sophisticated adult who has never before acted in such a ridiculous way. If she does actually see a doctor and they find that she has autism, he’s prepared to apologize.
That being said, he’s not going to play along with her lies and delusions.
Honestly, this sounds like attention-seeking behavior to me and nothing more. I don’t know anyone who is autistic, by the way, who goes around using that as some kind of a disclaimer or label.
I don’t know what it is that his girlfriend feels she’s lacking in life, but clearly it’s something. If this girl is genuinely convinced she has autism, she wouldn’t have been offended at his suggestion to go see a doctor, so that’s suspicious to me.
What do you think?
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