Two years ago, another doctor told him he had schizoaffective disorder. And in 2010, he was prescribed antipsychotic and antidepressant medications following a schizophrenia diagnosis, which he later came to believe was incorrect. He has struggled with insomnia, depression and anger issues.
And as the title of his post indicated, he also identified as autistic: “My is pretty mild when compared to more serious cases, yet it’s still bad enough that my social skills are severely impaired.” Álvaro lives in South America, and in a photo he shared of himself, he has short, dark hair, brown eyes and a stippling of beard. (He declined to provide his last name because of the stigma of the incel label and the potential for it to harm his work prospects.) He wrote in the forum that he did not “condone in any way the ideas and abhorrent behavior of incels,” but he identified as one anyway. XavierInTheForest is, in fact, a young man called Álvaro. They sometimes call women ‘sluts’ or ‘whores’ but mostly refer to them as ‘femoids,’ ‘foids’ or even ‘female humanoid organisms’ - in other words, not quite human. The men on these sites obsess over their looks, exchange edgy memes and mine psychological studies for proof that the dating universe is viciously tilted against average-looking men. XavierInTheForest titled his post “ Testimony of an Incel with Autistic Spectrum Syndrome.” The term ‘incel’ is short for ‘involuntary celibate,’ and it has come to be associated with online communities of men who have lost any hope of finding a partner in the age of dating apps. He told the other users that he had promised himself if he was still without a partner when he turned 40, he would either kill himself or be surgically castrated. “I’ve given up on the idea of ever finding a ‘significant other,’” he wrote. In his 34 years, he said, the closest thing to a relationship he had achieved had lasted for only a couple of months in high school. In it, he recounted his long history of rejection by women. Last September, a man with the screen name ‘XavierInTheForest’ wrote an unsettling post on the online forum Reddit.
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