 Four reasons why you might feel like a fake autistic. It's not just autism. You may be listening to someone talk about autism, but they might actually be talking from an old HD. They might be autistic and ADHD. And so their experiences of life, their traits, their difficulties, their positives might be a lot different than you. A lot of the issues that I have particularly around executive functioning are primarily caused by my mental health conditions. When you get painted this picture and you don't really know the background of this person, you may feel like a lot of the things that they say don't really connect with you and you may go, oh, okay, possibly not autistic. If you've had trauma, gaslighting and it's influenced you of how you think about yourself, you may feel like everything that you identify with or get diagnosed as is an opportunity to seek attention. People, you know, they show a lot of signs of being autistic, but there's some things that they really focus on. They get paranoid, they get upset. You'll find out that yes, you probably do have an imposter syndrome.