Every day we get to choose to be ourselves or the version other's want us to be. As an autistic transgender man life is hard because there is all these voices telling me, I shouldn't exist but I do and so do you. 💚
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My laptop recently gave in and I use my laptop for everything. As an autistic adult it a much need. I have created a wishlist on amazon with a laptop
and I have added a keyboard Tablet so if the laptop is expensive than the tablet would be a better option as it's cheaper.
Can we not drag self-diagnose Autistic under the bus? I don't get why some Autistic hates it as to get diagnose as Autistic, you had to assume you are (meaning you had to self-diagnose yourself) and it is a lengthy process to officially get it!
Also stop projecting the hate you got from neurotypicals to them, you are not helping yourself either! Sorry for this mini-rant, I'm just fed up of people policing others and as well as mocking them
@matty@actuallyautistic There does seem too a bit of gatekeeping in neurospicy. Almost a pecking order. Some ADHDers see themselves as above those with ASD, those with diagnoses see themselves as above those who 'have a suspicion but at age 5x or 6x there's little point'... etc.
The words I've heard from the 'anti' side have been truly vicious, and always along the lines of "faking it".
There's enough prejudice without inflicting it on each other.
Here's a free and reliable #Autism test: do you feel at home among #ActuallyAutistic people? Do you feel like you get what we are talking about or are we a bunch of weirdos to you?
If yes & yes, congrats on autism & welcome to whanau!
I have very difficult time imagining that a Deeply Neurotypical person of any variety would feel at home among us (any more than we can be truly comfortable while surrounded by deeply neurotypical people).
We hypothesized that autistic adults may be erroneously judged as deceptive or lacking credibility due to demonstrating unexpected and atypical behaviors. Thirty autistic and 29 neurotypical individuals participated in video-recorded interviews, and we measured their demonstration of gaze aversion, repetitive body movements,...
