It's usually done as a strategy to try to fit in, to be "one of the good ones," or sometimes just self loathing given a signal boost by chuds in the same community.
It's saddening how many people, especially trans people, call themselves d-word-popularized-by-nazis, for example. Or marginalized ethnic group members that use the very slurs that are used to justify putting people like them into camps.
It's fucked up, but I am often at a loss for how to reach those people, or if such a thing is even possible. :doomer:
EDIT: It seems this is important enough to :freeze-gamer: that alt accounts must be mustered to rage at me about it. :jokah-messy:
Yeah, a lot of autistic people absolutely hate themselves. I used to be one of them.
Yeah, it's a defense mechanism which is what makes it so fucking heartbreaking because I know I've done that shit to myself in the past too with my ADHD
Are y'all me?
Even on the low end of the scale, there's so many things you just miss every day and nt folks give you shit for it. Especially if you pass on 90% of things and just don't get something, they see you as just an asshole.
I had something at work happen in a recruiting event where a NT coworker did not understand what neurodiverse was at a ND table and I was so annoyed and embarrassed because I realized I was able to communicate with these folks so much better than I could with this coworker.
I started to be louder about it at work, mentioning it more often to cement in people's mind that yeah, I'm a bit odd, that this shit is real and if you're fucking recruiting for a STEM job, you need to fuckin do better.