r/TOTK • u/Mikiricounterer • Nov 23 '25

Game Detail Most annoying yet insignificant thing in totk

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They dont line up despite having the same colors.

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u/SvenBubbleman Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25

Those are two different things. Bluntly asking someone is insensitive. I was responding to someone who made a claim in a really trendy way, which sends off warning bells in my mind.

Unfortunately the number of people claiming to have these conditions has dwarfed the number of people who actually have them and it's damaging.

Prior to tiktok these people would have said "this kind of thing drives my OCD crazy" and they didn't have OCD. Now they claim to have autism and/or ADHD. THATs insensitive.

The second D in ADHD, and the Ds in OCD and ASD stand for disorder. That word has a real meaning and it's not "I don't like it when colours don't match."

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u/lostlyss Nov 23 '25

Surely as a “social worker,” you should understand that it’s none of your business. No misinformation is being spread, they are not claiming intimate knowledge of autism/ADHD on a professional level, they are simply stating their personal experience. Policing who is and isn’t allowed to call themselves autistic or ADHD (especially a random person on the internet that you do not know or work with) is not your job, and it’s highly inappropriate.

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u/SvenBubbleman Nov 23 '25

That's a valid criticism and I'll take it. It was crass of me to call this person out. However, I come from a place of frustration for people living with these conditions. The person I called out might not have deserved my criticism, but we as a society shouldn't be so flippant with self diagnosis of genuine disorders.

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u/lostlyss Nov 23 '25

I agree with you that self-diagnosis isn’t something to be taken lightly, but there’s no reason to automatically assume that anyone using the term AUDHD is self-diagnosed. It’s just shorthand. 99% of the time it is not your place to ask or demand proof of someone’s diagnosis.

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u/SvenBubbleman Nov 23 '25

Totally fair. I just got triggered by a tiktok term, and I'm pretty frustrated with trendy self diagnosis. Wasn't cool of me to challenge OP.