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What was the saddest/most touching thing you saw on the internet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Quintus@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I remember that on Reddit, a few years ago, there was a woman on a subreddit.

I was just looking what was on Reddit and doomscrolling r/shitposting for 20 minutes was more than enough. I decided to just type-in random words to the URL bar to see what subreddits I would stumble upon.

After lots of private and NSFW subs, finally I ended up on r/alone and I found this lady in the sea of "i wanna kill myself soooo baddddd" posts.

The lady was autistic if I remember collectly. She had a boyfriend who also had a mental ilness. Unlike her though, he was violent. He would scream at her for pointless things and shit.

The lady was always confused. At least she seemed so to me. Which is probably the autism. She had a hamster cage and had a brain-injured hamster that she kept because it was sick in the head just like her, as she put it.

Have no idea what happened to her. I still think about her sometimes. It just felt so sad.

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The lady was autistic if I remember collectly. She had a boyfriend who also had a mental ilness.

Autism isn’t a mental illness.

[–] borokov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Depend on the level. It's a spectrum, but at some point it do become a illness.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Sorry, that’s incorrect.

Autism is commonly comorbid with mental health disorders (aka “mental illnesses”) like anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc., as well as with intellectual developmental disorders, but autism is still considered, at worst, a neurodevelopmental disorder, regardless of where an individual falls on the spectrum.

Both the DSM-V and ICD-11 are in agreement about this, for what that’s worth, but you could also just do a search for “Is autism a mental illness?” on Duckduckgo, Kagi, Searx, Bing, Google, or whatever, if you want to confirm.

[–] borokov@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I've spot the autistic guy.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I've spotted the developmentally impaired person.

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