Comments by "Just Another Bucky Lover" (@JustAnotherBuckyLover) on "Inside the Brain of a Psychopath" video.

  1. Not saying this was your intent but I just wanted to clarify (for everyone) that being autistic doesn't automatically mean you lack empathy. I know this is a commonly spread misconception, even by medical professionals, but it's simply not true. A lot of autistics struggle with identifying emotions (alexithymia) and many more struggle with explaining their experiences and feelings to allistic people - it's kind of like one person talking in French and the other talking in English and trying to make sense of each other with only a couple of years of school language lessons, no clue about differences in social behaviour, idioms, etc. But plenty of autistics feel an excess of empathy, even for inanimate objects. Also, AFAB autistics are often misdiagnosed or go undiagnosed well into adulthood, or they get misdiagnosed with (drumroll) BPD. Honestly, ALL BPD is basically a trauma response and I personally see very little difference between that and cPTSD in a lot of cases. But it seems that the medical community likes to slap a BPD label on a lot of AFAB folks regardless. If you haven't already done so, it might be worth looking at what is often termed "female" autism, even though neither gender nor autism presentation is binary. I know plenty of AMAB individuals that went undiagnosed too because they also didn't fit the "classical" autistic profile which , honestly, is biased in so many ways because it's based solely on a small number of middle-class white boys from many, many years ago. You never know - you might find that it rings a lot of bells for you, but it might not. Just wanted to add my two cents as an AFAB autistic with a shit-ton of childhood trauma and cPTSD
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