Well apparently your comment got 13 fucktard votes so they do matter to some.

Cat.

Oh, how impressively convenient. Suddenly, you have several doctors available to establish your credibility in an online argument, and apparently I am supposed to accept your claims without question. How remarkably convenient that your medical history becomes relevant precisely when you need it to win an argument with a stranger on the internet.

I have absolutely no reason to believe your claims simply because you make them, and even if every word you said were true, your alleged autism diagnosis changes absolutely nothing about the argument. It does not make your opinions more accurate, your reasoning more sound, or your insults more intelligent. Autism is not an argument-winning credential.

Your argument about the odds of encountering four autistic people online is equally ridiculous. The internet is a self-selecting environment, and people with shared interests and experiences naturally congregate in online communities. The likelihood of encountering autistic people on Reddit or Lemmy is obviously not equivalent to the likelihood of encountering them in a random sample of the general population. That is basic sampling bias.

For context, the CDC's latest published surveillance data identified autism in approximately 1 in 31 eight-year-old children across its 16 monitoring sites in 2022. That is roughly 3.2%, not some astronomical proportion of the population. However, there is no reliable scientific statistic establishing how many people who self-identify as autistic without a formal diagnosis are actually autistic. Anyone pretending otherwise is inventing numbers to support a preconceived conclusion. https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research

And here is the truly amusing part: when you cannot make a convincing argument against someone, your immediate instinct is to speculate that they are autistic. You have apparently decided that autism is a convenient explanation for anyone whose opinions you dislike. That says considerably more about your own prejudices and your inability to engage with an argument than it does about the person you are attacking.

People can have unusual personalities, social difficulties, obsessive interests, awkward communication styles, or any number of personal quirks without necessarily meeting the diagnostic criteria for autism. Conversely, autistic people do not all present identically. A diagnosis requires an appropriate clinical assessment, not a collection of stereotypes assembled by someone who thinks they can diagnose strangers through a comment section.

So let me make this exceptionally simple for you: I do not need to establish whether you are autistic, neurotypical, or anything else to evaluate the quality of your argument. Your personality and your medical history are irrelevant to whether your reasoning holds up.

You, on the other hand, seem so desperate to discredit someone who disagrees with you that you have resorted to armchair diagnosis and personal insults. That is not evidence of superior intelligence. It is what people do when they have run out of substantive points to make.

Next time, try addressing the actual argument instead of inventing psychological explanations for the person making it. You might discover that you have something worth contributing after all.

I only read the beginning because it was clearly written by AI. Youre right. Me being autistic doesn't win any argument other than the one where you said I'm not autistic. That being said nothing YOU said in your chatgpt book that you just wrote me makes you any less of a dumbass c#nt.

tl;dr past the first comma

I'll have you know I'm in my mother's attic.

This is the only post of yours I have downvoted, but sure.

You want to look at Sneak Attack Man and put "art" in quotation marks then you are officially no longer a "human being" to me.

I was banned for being a dick.

That checks out, considering you feel it acceptable to unfoundedly accuse random people of being incels.

Definitely not random, a specific type of person.

Let's not use slurs.

No, I just REALLY don't want to rise above it right now.

Lemmy users are not a monolith. They are people from across the world. They cannot be classed into one specific type.

I sent you a message. I hope you read it.

I hope the very last experience you ever have is a dream with Freddy Kruger in it... Not the original one, the remake Freddy that everybody hated.

Never said they were. I clearly explained a specific type of person.

You might also want to consider that these Lemmy users aren't downvoting posts "to be incels", but because:

• You've been rather rude in responses, using slurs and accusations.
• You posted this in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, but it isn't a shitpost.
• You used AI to upscale an image in another thread. Those upscaled images were probably downvoted because most here, like me, dislike generative AI immensely.

No, really, that's probably why. That's why I downvoted it too.

I definitely sympathize with you being devastated by having your art rejected. That's fair, and I liked your art. I would have upvoted it otherwise.

What isn't fair is insulting people because they criticize or disagree with you. If you are courteous, most people will be courteous to you in return.

Why not? It does you no harm to be kind to others. Life is a lot better when you are kind and others are kind in return.

You see, I am an actual incel, I'd like to be in relations, have deep emotional connection, intimacy, sex, and some actual responsibilities in life to make me less of husk of a human, but I am a sore loser, so it'll never happen. So I'd probably happily downvote your post (I have to, I guess), but for better or worse I am on instance that doesn't allow downvoting at all, and I still feel it is kinda waow based, so I won't jump to another one just for you. Sorry for not fulfilling your desire, no downvote from me.

Don't know anything about original point of downvoting legit posts, can't help with this too.

Also no, I do not live in basement, just different room in same apartment as my mom.

Addition: you post on comms I don't follow, what do you expect? 🤣

Dude. Take a break. I saw what you meant by making your comic sharper with AI. My bad, you were right.

Now you’re odly confrontational for the sake of being confrontational. In my book the only people that do this are internet troll.

Before the AI debacle you had some great upvotes and comments, so I don’t understand what start your post ? From what I saw nobody were criticizing your art but your choice to use AI to clean it.

If you can see me down here in the basement, that means you're down here with me cuz there ain't no windows.

I don't care if someone disagrees with me and I can handle valid constructive criticism. I get caught up in fighting with legitimate pieces of shit on the internet. You don't seem to be one of those people so we're good.

They said mom's basement, so that also implies they're in your mom's house.

That's the spirit! Always aim high!

It wasn't upscale you piece of shit it was literally the exact same thing as using photoshop to enhance a photo....fuck you

Yeah I know

I used AI to enhance the photo, exactly like what I could have done with photoshop, thats it. Plus they were sent in individual comments to people who specifically asked me to enhance the fucking photos. The original post was 100% hand drawn.

what's wrong with downvotes, I mean yes it can be demotivating or idk. But like I feel like you're taking it too seriously. It's the internet, never get mad at internet people, it's a waste of time.

And I really don't care if I'm being a troll right now. That doesn't mean I'm a troll everyday it means I'm allowing my mind to sink as low as it can fucking go right now to defend myself. It's a temporary state of mind that serves a temporary purpose. So call me a troll all you want, idc.

Upscaling is the term for using Photoshop to enhance a picture too. And that may also use AI: it's built into a lot of Photoshop features. There are other ways of doing it, of course, like sharpness factors and edge detection.

I'm not trying to be rude.

I don't think these people are either, to be honest. Or at least, I don't feel as though I can assume that about them. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

I'm glad we're good.

I mean that would just mean an incel that uhm, fucks, so that's like.
I know that's not what it means but it's slightly funnier to say dumb stuff.
Also the verb can also be used in the same way ans it's probably used like that commonly

Someone here described my hand drawn art as "art". There are legitimate pieces of shit here.

Yup a shitpost for sure

Ok man whatever I fucking drew the original post.

I agree that is a waste of time to do it all the time. This is just happening right now for me, tomorrow I'm going to haunted house with my friends and this whole experience will be an afterthought by then.

Oh, did they? That's quite rude of them. I don't think it's good to assume that they're a generally shitty person, but they certainly did a shitty thing. I'm sorry that they said that. I think your art is good.

kool! hope you have fun there.

Yes, and you did a good job. :)

Please delete the comments you made encouraging people to commit suicide or wishing for their deaths.

I know it's easy to post things like that when you're angry, but remember that there are real people with valuable lives receiving these messages. As human beings, we have a duty to be kind to one another, and to take responsibility for our mistakes.

And as a person who has received death threats before (hell of a lot of fun being gay), I'll say that for people like me with OCD, they can stick around and fester in the mind. It hurts to have people tell you your life is less than worthless to them.

I think the best thing to do would be to delete the comments encouraging people to commit suicide. I hope you agree.

lol

What if we just steal the plural from genus and modify it? So instead of genera, we get geniera?

Oh, I hope you have fun!

Ha! Have fun being haunted by the ghost of my dead mother, OP. 😤

lol

wait no

If I had a nickel. You stupid ignorant fucks can't even read five minutes of text.

Think twice before you announce your fake ass autism.

High time someone called you out on your bullshit.

No, I only see calculated votes.