"That's so Autistic!"

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Never go full autistic.

I've never heard that, but then again, it's been nearly 20 years since I graduated high school.

Full autistic?

Look at pictures and memes on Facebook and I think you might see it.

It makes you wonder if they have any Autistic friends, just like the 'that's so gay' crowd and LGBT friends.

Wouldn't it be funny if someone said to someone "You are so autistic" and that person told them "actually I am, I was diagnosed with it when I was seven"?

People have said to me: "don't be such a sperg about X"

In retrospect they're probably right, but F em. It's a free country.

Afraid this is true, Australia is a about 20 years behind the US and UK and political correctness...

Back in high school, my Dad kept on tapping his foot and Mom told him to stop three times. He would stop and do it again. Finally I said "What do you have Dad, ADHD?" making a joke about his behavior. To my surprise Mom told me "Actually Beth, he does," and I was in for a surprise. Then she told me my old shrink would be looking at his behavior and keeping track of it when he would take me to see her and be talking to her about me and she made notes of his behavior. So the joke I was making turned out to be true.

Yeah, it would. I can't wait until the day that some person my age says it to me. I might start laughing.

Ditto--thankfully. That phrase is definitely a new one for me...and I hope I never hear it anywhere else.

I agree that it should not be used as a pejorative, but there's something else too: when these kinds of expressions become commonplace (e.g., "OCD", "ADD", etc.), to me that denotes that they are becoming "faddish" and no one even takes them seriously anymore. For some reason, THAT really bugs me, because then people who actually have these conditions are dismissed out of hand.

Well a lot of us on the spectrum are very far from ret*d. Autism and retardation are not synonymous ok ok I know everyone here knows that.
It is a bit odd if NTs are using it and I find it a bit offensive. I have not come across this. I have come across a couple of guys with Autism saying "this makes my autism hurt" or "you're making my autism hurt" and like comments.

Slang for "sensory overload", perhaps?

I have seen sometimes online people throwing OCD and ADD around. Last time I saw it was about parents changing their babies in a restaurant in the dining room and that person said other people have OCD because they are bothered about it.

I have seen about people texting during a movie, some people were syaing all those people must have ADD if the light from the photo causes them distraction. I was actually thinking the same thing too because I wondered how hard is it to ignore it?

Pretty much. I am not sure if someone making talking a bunch of illogical garbage is sensory overload but is an issue nonetheless.