| 25 Nov 2023 |
 pieplup | nto real autistic people | 18:45:02 |
| pieplup | he doesn't have autism | 18:45:06 |
| pieplup | he woudln't qualify for autistic disorder | 18:45:10 |
| pieplup | he didn't have speech delays | 18:45:15 |
| pieplup | he speaked at a regular time | 18:45:18 |
| pieplup | he just had trauma that caused him to go mute | 18:45:23 |
 Mystery | Ye | 18:45:26 |
| pieplup | i just fdin taht funny | 18:46:40 |
| Mystery | Ye | 18:48:40 |
| Mystery | Ah so not really developmentally delayed so much as developmentally halted | 18:48:59 |
| pieplup | its' nto really a deevelopental thing | 18:49:16 |
| pieplup | it's a selective mutsim thing | 18:49:25 |
| Mystery | Ah | 18:49:53 |
 cloudysan | He doesn’t? I didn’t think speech delays were necessary to be diagnosed with autism. I didn’t have speech delays. | 18:53:45 |
| pieplup | it is for autistic disorder | 18:53:55 |
| cloudysan | What is the difference between autism and autistic disorder? | 18:55:34 |
| pieplup | say htat right | 18:56:51 |
| cloudysan | Oh I see. I didn’t have speech delay, but I wasn’t diagnosed with Asperger’s (this was back when Asperger’s was a legit diagnosis). I was diagnosed with just “autism” | 18:56:55 |
| pieplup | it's rather or not you devleop speceh by 3 years | 18:56:57 |
| pieplup | wasn't diagnsoed based on dsm then | 18:57:03 |
| cloudysan | Interesting… | 18:57:27 |
| cloudysan | The child psychiatrist that diagnosed me with both autism and Nonverbal Learning Disability | 18:57:59 |
| pieplup | whenw as this | 18:58:10 |
| cloudysan | 2007 | 18:58:15 |
| pieplup | it mgith be different icd | 18:58:15 |
| pieplup | i don't know mcuh about icd | 18:58:17 |
| pieplup | the lack of speech delay | 18:58:27 |
| pieplup | is why i say i techincally have aspergesr | 18:58:30 |
| pieplup | cause i hvae a rather rare development traajectory | 18:58:36 |
| pieplup | where i just stagnated at around 4-5 | 18:58:40 |
