I don't think that's confusing at all. My internet peers have kept using autism as an insult or ironic self-reflection for quite long time. Obviously neither th

I don't think that's confusing at all. My internet peers have kept using autism as an insult or ironic self-reflection for quite long time. Obviously neither the people they insult nor they themself have real autism, but when someone or they themselves act in what they consider "autistic manner" they probably mean something like Broad Autism Phenotype. Professionals can't just call people autistic like that so they had to come up with a more academic way to do so. Same goes for ADHD, and it's even more common. When people can't concentrate on doing boring stuff like studying on an exam or whatever they might say they have a little bit of an ADHD. They don't actually have a brain damage or underdeveloped frontal lobe or anything that causes real ADHD. They just can't focus which is very human and normal. Some people go as far as insisting to themselves that they must have something wrong with them and certain unethical doctors are willing to play ball with them just to give them doping for their next exam. I'm a bit of an "autist" and have a bit of an "ADHD" every now and then. But I'm clearly not brain damaged or mentally retarded. I guess a more academic way of putting it is that I sometimes have a bit of a "broad phenotype" for these things, as we all do.