to add another layer; tiktok is a fucked up platform where A LOT of ppl are presenting themselves as educators or speaking like experts when they're just people. Anybody's tiktok can go viral and it's a heady feeling.
https://twitter.com/dustychipura/status/1349405462337183745
so on the one hand you've got these discussions around self-diagnosis being a valid thing, which it is. But on the other hand you've got people self-diagnosing as autistic now speaking on TikTok, wanting to educate others about autism when they themselves are quite new to it
and that can be really frustrating for the more ... how do I say this? 'established' autistic creators? Again; not to undermine the importance of self-diagnosis - its really important to recognize the systemic barriers that prevent people, esp women and BIPOC folks from accessing
diagnoses - but i'm hearing some frustration from the autistic tiktok community around newcomers who are relatively new to autism in general. So that is another layer of a challenge to navigate, partnered with the disjointed medium that IS TikTok (60 second snippets)
that's confounding this whole issue.
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