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What's insane is that I feel like when an individual wants to be classified as something, they may start developing mannerisms that reflect how they think someone who does have it would act

I like how he titled the video "Rabbit Holes" but then only referred to it as an "iceberg".

I remember getting tested & diagnosed with a lot of things growing up. Never once did I think to make those a public statement. 7:46 That fly trend made me think of the time my family told me that when my dad was younger he put a fly in the freezer, tied it to a long piece of hair like a leash, and let it thaw out. I think they said it was still alive after it thawed, can't remember.

The curveball of going from killing flies to pretending to be a holocaust victim hit me hard

I have actual psychiatric-diagnosed OCD. I remember being in middle and high school when OCD was popularized (around the 2010 "rawr xd random" era). Being quirky was the big thing, so people referred to their desire to be organized and orderly as "my OCD acting up." So I imagine the frustration people who actually struggle with autism feel when their disorder is used as a trend. People who fake disorders, I leave a special place in my large intestine for you.

As an Autistic person myself, those disability fakers make autism sound fun to have, but its much worse than they say it is. Mostly because I have issues with coping with certain things and issues, while these TikTokers act like we don't struggle with anything, just flap our hands and act quirky :/

The thing that I hate the most about people who fake having things like autism is that, not only do they do it just for attention, validation, and views, but they don’t show the harsh side of having it at all. Every person who fakes having it always portrays it as something that just makes you more happy and ecstatic and something that’s just fun to have. Well, as an autistic person myself, I can safely say that having autism is not all sunshine and rainbows. From a lack of an ability to handle/cope with certain things to a lack of an ability to focus, there are a lot of developmental and social issues that come with autism. People with autism struggle with a lot and I hate that these fakers act like those struggles just don’t exist at all.

Fun fact: a self diagnosis still requires evidence and an official opinion, you aren’t making a diagnosis your just speculating

I stopped using TikTok because I saw a video that said, "How to tell you were abused even if you had great parents". Like people on there are literally just looking for something to be mentally ill about. It's honestly disgusting and cringe to me. It also invalidates people have legit disorders and have survived actual trauma. I see it a lot with BPD. These debilitating symptoms are romantasized. Like weird flex, but okay.

The fly stuff is nuts, I hate bugs but that is just torturing it for no reason.

I recently got my ADHD diagnosis and I remember being excited not because I had a disability but because I finally knew why certain things were harder for me to do😭

I was only happy with my ADHD diagnosis because I could actually get treated. Not because I could say I have it. Plus I constantly fidget and shake and stuff like that, I don’t think I’m autistic though.

Relieved Oompa actually knows he’s autistic, was worried for a sec that bro actually think he neurotypical 💀

When I was diagnosed with Depression, I finally felt relief. It was torture to not understand what was wrong with me and getting answers made it easy for me to move forward. But somehow seeing people just make it their whole personality or fake having it is WILD? Like why choose to make it worse for yourself by exposing it online? Majority of people I know who got better with managing their condition are those who are lowkey about it. Going online is just begging for more stress.

I’m so glad I don’t have tik tok, I’m not a fan of people faking autism. I actually got diagnosed as a child (which was rare for a girl back in the 90’s) growing up was hard. The teasing, the missed information, not getting invited to events and being expected to do so many things at once, I had several breakdowns in my 20’s and looking back I didn’t fully grasp that I would still affect me as an adult. Communication can still be a challenge but life has gotten better. Just wish I knew sooner-I didn’t find out until I was an adult that I was autistic.

I struggle a lot with feelings of guilt because I fear more often than not that I'm using my condition as a front and excuse to be lazy and stuff. To think that people fake illnesses for attention doesn't surprise, they just don't know better but it still baffles me every time.

Honestly, I’ve seen a lot of TikToks about my disability. The thing most of the suggestions and content they make had nothing to do with the disability itself. They just make random connections to some parts of their life and say “yeah this is related to this disability”

I can't tell if Tara was spelling Holocaust wrong or genuinely doesn't know how to spell it, and that's honestly the best way to sum up her editing style.

I was given my personally sought after diagnosis for autism just this week. 33 years of not knowing what was different about me, but always having struggled in social situations. Very fascinated by your coverage of this. In my diagnosis, we covered easily 700+ written and 100’s of verbal questions to understand who i am, before confirming me as autistic. It cost me $3000 to find out this about myself, after again: years of struggling socially. It allowed me validation, a viral tiktok could never provide.

I believe having communities online for these disorders isn’t always a bad thing. The fakers are wild. It’s so crazy. But following people who actually have autism for example has made me realize a lot about myself. Not diagnosed yet but my dr is setting up my assessment after seeing autistic creators and doing my own (excessive at one point) research to show him. Which started on online like insta, tiktok, Facebook etc, then. It extended onto health websites and authors who are diagnosed, etc. but it has definitely gone too far

I love when the lack of empathy in Caleb comes out in ad reads

I'll never understand the bragging about your mental health disorder thing, especially as an adult. Tik tok and Twitter really are some of the worst things to ever happen to humanity

I really hate that people try and fake autism, can't imagine how difficult that makes it for people who actually have it and try to speak out about their experiences :((

"self diagnoser" "get professional help" bro i cant afford it 💀

I didn't know the last kid didn't get found guilty!? That's insane i feel so bad for the neighbor/victim's family, that's got to be I unimaginably frustrating.

TikTok has too many flaws to the point that I just can't count how many there are, I just wish TikTok just shut down or restarted entirely.

I lived my life having a hard time processing things, like I can hear people say things to me but my brain doesn't process it well so I usually ask people to repeat themselves. I ended up going to special classes in middle school and highschool due to this. Overall I didn't take it seriously because I pretty much lived with it. So recently, I was talking to a co-worker about it because I kept making repeats herself. She mentioned I had "something delay disorder" (I can't remember the name) So I looked it up, "huh! That actually sounds like what I have". So I mentioned it to friends and family.... Their reactions made me feel a type of way. I had friends respond I got that too. Since I didn't care about that much after the day I mentioned it I stopped talking about it because I was just genuinely happy It's a word for it. Current day --- Now everyone is talking about people's self diagnosis... which I never knew it was a thing, so now I regret mentioning the disorder. Especially since it was just something interesting I learned.

As someone with adhd the whole thing of people trying to diagnose themselves or treating it as a cute little thing has never experienced getting incredibly upset over something very small then getting more upset by the fact that you realized you blew up over nothing and hurt the feelings of the people around me, the stare at a wall for 6 hours

Never have i ever used tik tok and i get more thankful each time i hear a story like these

Oompa never fails to spread us open and fill us with content

Ever since it became "trendy" to have ADHD ive gone from being on a 1 year assesment waiting list to a 5 year one :) thank tiktok

Honestly, thank you. I’ve seen so many creators with LARGE followings support self diagnosis, especially younger large creators. I saw a younger creator delete her video against self diagnosis because she was getting so much hate

Being presented a disorder/disability means you dont have to develop a personality. developing a personality leaves you vulnerable because people might not like you and thats scary but having a disorder means you automatically fit in without having to do anything and also cant be blamed for it making you feel "safer" because its not your fault

I have not been assessed by professionals for ADHD or autism, but my partner works with kids who do, and they tell me I act exactly like an adult version of them, and friends with autism tell me they see symptoms in me. And I so struggle with imposter syndrome with these and other potential issues. Sadly, my income doesn't support random diagnostic exams.

6:28-6:53 the majority of those "Autism movements" are some if the most common thing I see people doing. Especially shaking your leg. I do this too, for me it's not an autism thing, I just to it because I feel like it keeps me entertained in a way.

As someone with autism, adhd and bipolar when people fake having it for attention and cause they wanna be special can be really offensive sometimes because its really easy to tell they dont have it but everyone believes them. People do literally everything for attention recently. It's kinda sad ngl

The insane rabbit hole I recently went down is that one of your videos was suggested to me. I clicked on it and have been binge watching your content ever since. Your delivery is hilarious, but some people make social media a strange and dark place.

I love how oompa talks about these people who fake autism but refuses to say he has autism himself. He wants people to interact with him normally not because he has autism. He truly is an amazing person

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As somebody with diagnosed autism and ADHD that was very late diagnosed and miss treated their whole life because of being “weird” or “ not fitting social norms” people that want to fake autism, or ADHD, or any kind of disability, will truly never understand the cultural aspects of our community, and I will say there are things that make autism and adhd “fun” such as the community we have by sharing our own experiences with others, but that’s literally the whole point. OUR OWN experiences which fakers do not have. People always think that disabilities will give them some kind of positive attention, but in fact, it’s actually kind of humiliating when people treat you like you’re a dog and think that you can’t understand simple words just because you have autism. There’s a lot of terrible stereotypes about all disabilities especially neurological.

TikTok is probably one of the most bizarre apps ever created, since mostly everyone on it is either from Gen Z or is mentally insane.

The editing in these is always amazing as it highlights the unhinged way that papas mind works 😂

Oompa always fails to ruin our day

The Hall of Cost trend was absolutely unhinged, it was so obnoxious & out of pocket that I could not help but laugh whenever I saw one of those videos.

As an autistic man of 40 years of age, i can say...THANK YOU ! This whole trend of " oh look at me , im autistic because i am sooo quirky" is not only annoying, it also harms those of us who actually suffer from what is an actual disability ! While self diagnoses can be valid, because at some places it takes up to 5 years and lots of money to actually get a propper diagnosis, theres definetly a trend of being " neurospicy" ( TikTokism for ADHD and ASD) .

Tiktokers see one meme they relate to and call themselves ADHD, meanwhile I still sometimes tell myself I dont have ADHD and am actually just a lazy pos... despite being diagnosed by a doctor specializing in ADHD... and despite my prescription drugs for it working on me like they do for a person with neurotransmitter deficiencies. Sometimes I wish I had just a drop of that self-confidence those Fakers have.

As far as I'm aware, just about everywhere it's classified as "assault with a deadly weapon" or "armed robbery" or whatever equivalent if the victim(s) can reasonably believe the perp has a real weapon. So if you hold up a bank with a realistic looking nerf gun, that counts because, for all intents and purposes, that was a real weapon.

As someone who has been diagnosed with things like depression, PTSD, ADHD and autism I don’t know how anyone can call those things a “win”.

I deleted TikTok bc of the self diagnosing, its such a slap in the face for people who truly struggle to function.

Ah, the internet. A wellspring of human knowledge yet venomous if overconsumed.

I had a classmate in college who had Asperger’s syndrome, I was told that it was mild but you can pretty much guess by his mannerisms. Interestingly though, he was the first one who I talked to and became somewhat friends with in their batch (I was from a different batch, but I needed to take some of their classes after taking a year break). He was from a different department but transferred to us because of bullying, I can see how it was hard for him to get along with people and open up. At some point he was able to open up to us since we were a department with like only 15-20 people in it and we were close-knit and tried to get along with each other as much as possible. After a few years with him, we saw how he became more talkative to us and can actually look at us from time to time, it made us happy whenever he was the first one to say hi to us. Disabilities are not trophies to collect, they are challenges that people have to live with. The achievement is not being diagnosed with disabilities, but by being able to live and do the things they want while having one.

im so glad you covered the self diagnosing because i've seen it so many times, but it was more people saying they have bpd based on a bingo card

One day some killer candy will show up on my doorstep and I will have forgotten that I ordered it. Thank you in advance for the surprise Oompa

oompapa never fails to make our days better

As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD at 6 years old and reevaluating every few years and still maintain that diagnosis; its super strange to see it become such a fad and everyone is just so "I think I have adhd because I like to talk fast and I am very obnoxious". I hate everything about this "look at me" culture we live in.

The reason why self diagnosis in the autistic community is accepted is because getting a formal diagnosis is incredibly hard and really expensive, not to mention you lose basic rights if you have a formal diagnosis. It can prevent you from emigrating to certain countries, and if you have kids, the court can use your autism against you to get your custody over your child taken away because you're "dangerous" or "unstable." And some people don't want to be on that 4 year long wait list, some people don't have enough money to get one. The stigma surrounding autism is just enough for autistic people to keep it away from their records. Some therapists tell their clients that they don't want to send them to get tested BECAUSE it's dangerous to even have it on your record with the society we live in right now. No, autism is not getting "popular" because it's "quirky" or "cute" to have. It's because more people are actually getting diagnosed, they finally got passed that 4 year long wait list. Also, autism was mostly only studied in males, they never studied autism in females until now... most AFAB people are misdiagnosed, I know it was said in the video, but, shockingly, its true. Yes, there are unfortunately some people who fake having autism, but most people who self diagnose do it because they want to be safe and they actually do their research on autism and find themselves relating to most of the things they find. If someone says they watched one tik tok video and decided they had autism is a liar, but the great majority of self diagnosed people actually do their research. Even autistic people themselves can spot out another autistic person better than the doctors can...

Saying "a win is a win" about PTSD is straight up so frustrating. I have diagnosed severe PTSD and complex PTSD, confirmed by multiple doctors. I straight up cannot imagine calling it a win in ANY way. It is the worst part of my entire life. It makes everyday and nearly every activity difficult. For anyone to say they want to proves they don't have it and frankly don't know what it even entails. It's not some fun time. I think they believe it is because so many videos show dissociation as something fun when even that is not accurate and not even close to the worst/ most prominent symptom.

I’m glad nowadays there’s less people faking their mental illness and actual people who have never been diagnosed as children showing up with signs and are unsure. It’s less offensive.

Adhd does run in my family. Though I was never diagnosed it was heavily speculated. After talking to psychiatrist I was put on meds for ocd, I am diagnosed with RAD and ptsd. And my RAD diagnosis is infact confused with autism at the age of my diagnosis. RAD is normally diagnosed at only a few months old but they caught mine at 15. It's stimulated from a rough relationship with parents and brain damage and now I know... I have brain damage

I have epilepsy and had no episodes since years due to meds yet choose not to drive vehicles and barely 50 people including work friends and relatives are even aware of it! Why someone would worship disabilities online is beyond me genuinely! 😮‍💨

That poem quote hit pretty hard tbh oompa, thank you for sharing it :)

The case with Zachary Letham actually scares me. This kid was allowed to walk free after instigating a family into attacking him and then killing one of them “in self defense.”

with the tiktok rap about autism, she is right about autism being one of the biggest missed diagnosis for women in mental health, it is usually brushed off as BPD, Depression, or Bipolar

While tik tok may have been getting people to think they've got disabilities, I quite literally have been dealing with disabilities both diagnosed and undiagnosed since I was a little kid.

I love watching tiktok because I get to see things I didn't want to 3x faster than I normally do

I never wish anyone to have autism or adhd or ocd like I have 💀 like I don't think people understand exactly how bad it is, you can't socialize properly sometimes, sometimes you can't even speak, sometimes you get overwhelmed from the smallest sounds imaginable like someone walking it is an insane struggle sometimes to just exist fr

i currently know someone who makes ADHD their ENTIRE personality. they will always talk about it any chance given and everyone is always reminded by them. now we arent sure they are actually diagnosed or not but they will say how they love being someone with ADHD.

One oompaville video a day keeps the voices away

as an autistic person i promise you i would rather not have autism if given the choice 😭 people faking it and thinking it makes them quirky drives me insane

It's frustrating because I didn't get diagnosed as a child but now as an adult it's super obvious I'm autistic and it's a real thing because my psychiatrist basically said the school system wont care as long as you're not actively bothering others and they wont look into it. So it's a real problem but it's annoying how that turns into someone faking it and using that as an excuse. Cause then people think you're making it up too.

Man I really hated the whole tic & tourettes thing that people were doing cuz to this day I can’t accept I have tics, it’s been 7 years since I got diagnosed and it’s something only my brother and parents know about. It’s something I always avoided and ignored so when I see people doing this it just looks kinda weird tbh. Also a lot of people don’t know but patients with neurological tics get bad episodes when they see other people with tics, if it’s really bad they will literally copy the tic or sound and make it one of their own, I had to be careful watching videos for a short period.

The reason behind why newly diagnosed autistics being so proud of their diagnosis, is because for the first time in their life they understand why they've struggled so hard in whatever part of their life it affects, and it's very disappointing to see people who were diagnosed early with it (like oompa) scrutinize and judge them for it, when early diagnosed autistics are less likely to develop mental health issues and get into dangerous situations than late diagnosed autistics (quote me if I am wrong).

That trafficker guy... I did not like to see those videos because I couldn't help but wonder how those girls are now. It's heartbreaking, but I'm glad he put it on TikTok so there is evidence against him.

It makes me almost nauseous at the fact that it is my generation that are faking these illnesses, some of which I have and have been professionally diagnosed with and in having to deal with these illnesses it’s so frustrating seeing people WANTING these problems and the fact that I am associated with this group simply because we are in the same generation. It is ignorant and harmful towards those who need a diagnosis and won’t even be considered or taken seriously by a professional because it was a trend. Makes me sick.

I genuinely have and been diagnosed with adhd, autism, ocd and tourette's. It's so confusing to me why people would pretend to have any of them they can be very miserable especially when you have multiple. If you genuinely had them you wouldn't be showing off and being like "look at me"

Oompaville, your unique sense of humor and content always brightens my day. Keep up the entertaining videos!"❤

Jesus dude do you ever take a break?! You release videos SO much more often than most. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I have severe adhd and it genuinely divides me with alot of people in my life. I had to take 3 different kinds of Adderall (which destroyed my memory btw) as a child , probably around 8 - 17. The list goes on about how much bull people with adhd, including me, that makes it so hard for everyday life idk why everyone all of a sudden has this thing that has been a anchor on development and mental stability in some individuals life

TikTok can be informational. It helped diagnose my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome because I had no idea about the Beighton scale and that the things I thought were normal were actually not. I brought this to my doctor who sent me to a geneticist who confirmed it.

Oompa you should do some spooky content for October ❤❤

TikTok is so wild sometimes

The faking disabilities fr messed me up in 2021. I was going through it (funnily enough undiagnosed adhd and autism) and convinced myself based off of TikTok and minimal research I had borderline. Go to ur doctor y’all, don’t self diagnose.

My brother is autistic and he doesn’t even know it and I don’t even know if we are supposed to tell him or not but he’s one of the smartest kids in his class so seeing people pretend frustrates me and confuses me someone can be so disrespectful also, I love you oopaville 💕💕💕

3:51 so, I actually have a daughter and a son on the autism spectrum and my ex wife works with children on the autism spectrum and everything that Girl was saying is very well known in the medical community about autism. All of the studies were done on boys and pretty much no girls and autism is missed in women/girls like 80 something percent of the time.

Never a dull moment 😂

I have ADHD. The struggle to go through with my morning routine and being on time is phenomenal. It’s not fun, not something to shine light on.

First when you mentioned the fly thing, i thought it was going to be about something my dad told me when i was a kid that is pretty wild. If you drown a fly and then take it out let it dry and put a little salt on it, it comes back to life. LOL

My man Caleb always delivers the best content! 😊

I think your videos are helping my ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, autism, and Munchausen syndrome.

I'm someone who actually has autism and had ADHD and never once did I brag about it. I was relieved to learn that there was a reason behind my behavior and other stuff, but I would never be happy about having it. It's just sad how many people who do this trend and are so happy about it

Detritivores are literally one of the most crucial parts of any ecosystem… also flies feed many species.

as someone with autism i will admit that a lot of them are just- so strange- but it is true a lot of women get misdiagnosed for having bpd or something else because theres trhis weird like- stereotype that females cant have- autism.?? its really weird,, a lot of undiagnosed autistic people also get misdiagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder sometimes- it's genuinely so weird,,

As an fyi, diagnosis for women with autism is usually difficult or overlooked due the dsm5 being based on MALE autistics. Women with autism behave differently and often mask heavily. Also, in the US, getting a diagnosis as an adult is difficult. Not only to find a place but if you do, expensive. I’m not saying these tiktoks are right and not absolutely cringe and misleading, but I feel a lot of hate is being thrown at women who recently discover their diagnosis with wanting to get attention.

Remember when people used to be ashamed to have disabilities? They went through trauma for it. It blows my mind how people want to have one now. Like those people must feel so boring that they can’t think of anything else that could make them interesting beyond being disabled. Like they don’t try to learn a new language or instrument: faking a disorder is what they chose? Those people will make it harder for people with real disorders to be taken seriously

As someone who has both adhd and autism it isnt quirky or fun, when i was in class i always couldnt focus and my thoughts were buzzing around like an angry bee in a jar, and every time i got home i would cry for 40 minutes just wishing i could focus and remember everything, my mom put me in a homeschool group but it didnt work out either, not to mention because of my autism i walk on my tippy toes and now my hamstring has shortend so now im on a waiting list for a surgery to get it cut (i think, idk if its getting cut) and i cant run or walk for more than an hour without my feet getting sore and week, all of this has taken a big toll on my mental health, and honestly i expect myself to die by my own hands or end up broke eating cheap noodle cups in an appartment

Hey, I usually agree with you, but your point about autism i disagree with. My psychiatrist told me I couldn’t be autistic because I had too many friends and understood theory of mind. Autism is really misunderstood, and literally to get an assessment, it can cost upwards of $10,000. For a piece of paper, that could disqualify you from jobs, or even being a foster parent. Self-diagnosing is valid, especially when you don’t have the money for diagnosis. I think there are very few people that diagnose themselves with a disorder for fun.

Once more thing the iceberg forgot is that every social media is trying to become like TikTok now.

I love this new type of video

I’m crying I feel like 99% of tik tokers Are actually insane and just having tik tok gives you mental illnesses