An autistic person commented about the autistic burnout post I wrote
that they thought they were "faking it"
and I just think that entire comment encompasses what it is like to be autistic in this world.
that they thought they were "faking it"
and I just think that entire comment encompasses what it is like to be autistic in this world.
You have been told so many times that X/Y/Z shouldn't bother you, or that you're a hypochondriac, or that you're [insert assumption here] that it's so easy to just believe it and tell it to yourself over and over.
Society conditions autistic people to gaslight ourselves.
Society conditions autistic people to gaslight ourselves.
The 6 months before I had an "official" autism diagnosis but knew from all the research I did I was probably autistic,
I just kept telling myself "Well you're just too anxious, people say you're a hypochondriac, you're just looking for something to be special about you!"
I just kept telling myself "Well you're just too anxious, people say you're a hypochondriac, you're just looking for something to be special about you!"
(Reader, I was an autistic person with multiple other undiagnosed disabilities)
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