Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
For me, my outward expressions don't actually constitute "freak outs" nor "hissy fits," but for many people - especially fully blown autistic individuals - it most certainly does. If you met me, unless you really got to know me or unless I told you outright, you would think I'm just a normal, but probably weird (if you met me many, many times), member of functioning society. I express my uncomfortable feelings probably better than most people who aren't on the spectrum and who don't have mental illness and I do not have much of a temper whatsoever. I'll avoid conflict 95% of the time and I have never once laid my hands on anyone.
It's difficult to describe what people with autism go through when they freak out and get angry. A hissy fit is something reserved usually for children who are attention seeking, but certainly this can happen in adults. However, people with autism do not freak out or become upset to seek attention, so I would be careful utilizing that phrasing of "hissy fit" with other people. People with autism react to stimuli (anything in this world that happens which can generate a response in us humans, plants and other animals) differently than people who aren't autistic and this is distinctly unique from, but also similar to what we know as mental illness as they suffer from serious genetic abnormalities that cause them to be unable to react to normal stimuli in a normal fashion.
As you go lower down the spectrum, sufferers become more and more capable of handling the real world and the continuous flow of stimuli that is fed their direction. To summarize, bouts of anger, or hissy fits and freak outs are something we all do as humans, whether you have an ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) or you suffer from other mental illnesses. Just like autism, mental illness and each disorder under that umbrella, have their own spectrum.
Too Long; Didn't Read (TL;DR): Some of you might resist this reality, but we are all to some extent experiencing some degree of mental deficit. This is not like gender identity spectrum, which is a fake, bullshit spectrum created by the woke...this is a very real, very provable, statistically validated truth. We all do things that are maladaptive and if you do, you can consider those things cognitive and/or behavioral disorders. You may not be "ill" or require hospitalization, but that's because you're on the borders of the spectrum for whatever mental illness correlates most precisely with said behavioral and/or cognitive issue.
Basically, some of the angriest, most ridiculously and poorly behaved people I've ever met were not autistic or mentally "ill" and never have had any official diagnoses nor sought out help from medical professionals. Something that impairs one persons life can be handled without incident by another person. Everything is relative, just like what you might think constitutes bad behavior is something another person might seek to instill in their own child and reinforce as good behavior.
I've gone on long enough at this point. You hopefully get the gist.
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