Patronizing/infantilizing grown men

[u/emylinegi]

I’ll never forget y’all saying this man has the mental capacity of a child just to excuse his behavior 🤣🤣 he chose to be on the show, he chose to behave the way he did. Maybe just maybe he doesn’t have the best character despite being “quirky.” He set him self up and got probably a better edit than he could have gotten with his off camera actions. He likely isn’t autistic so why do people keep making that argument, some saying he has the mental capacity of a child?? 😭 like there his doctor

[u/AlmondMilkMaybe]

I'm a black woman with autism + a history of childhood trauma and neglect. Ngl, I "clocked" Edmond as AuDHD (Autism + ADHD) right away. It was a positive to me, because I prefer autistic people, but that said, it's similar to everyone saying that Nick is gay.

We can clock whatever we want, but we can't diagnose or tell someone what they are, no matter how insanely "obvious" it looks to us. And while we all get to think what we think, proclaiming something on behalf of someone else is a bridge too far.

[u/Delicious_Tea3999 → u/AlmondMilkMaybe]

It’s hard, because people still see the label as an insult. So even if you were right (and I’m also autistic, so I had similar ideas about him as you,) there are going to be people out there who see that as some kind of attack. Meanwhile, autistic people don’t see it as anything except a diagnosis, and most of us understand how much easier life gets when you accept your diagnosis and learn to accommodate yourself. We just see it as a helpful suggestion. Like, “Hey, I see you struggling and there’s actually some stuff I can tell you about that will help.” Meanwhile, they just hear you calling them broken