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Mar 12 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Sadly some parents of Autistic people decide to go after Autistic people on social media because they don’t believe we are Autistic as these parents are uneducated about Autism being a spectrum and the only presentation of Autism that exists to them is the one of their child’s.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bet it will blow their mind to learn some Autistic people are scientists, own businesses and are parents 😂🙄
the ignorance though.
If we don’t struggle in the same way as their autistic child or of other Autistic people they’ve met them to them you can’t possibly be Autistic. 🤣😂 it’s literally just uneducated ignorance. They really need to step away and go learn about Autism properly
Being a parent to an Autistic person doesn’t make you an expert on Autism. It might make you an expert on your child’s Autism… but not Autism in general. Autism is a spectrum, and each Autistic person is different.
Sadly people confuse Autism with intellectual disability just because their child is Autistic with an intellectual disability they assume every Autistic person has an intellectual disability. NOT ALL AUTISTIC PEOPLE HAVE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.
It’s much harder for Autistic girls to get recognised as autistic and diagnosed as Autistic earlier in life because so many of us often present differently than other Autistic people and we tend to be very good at Autistic masking.
Sadly there’s a huge ko-fi.com/post/Autism-in…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The sad truth is certain people with large online followings are making out and trying to convince people that Autistic people on social media are all “self-diagnosed” and not actually Autistic. Obviously it’s not true.
It’s all because lots of Autistic people online support self-diagnosis due to the stigma and also the barriers to getting diagnosed. Just because we support self-diagnosis it doesn’t mean we are all self-diagnosed.
ko-fi.com/post/Self-diag…
The other reason it’s being made out online that we are all “fauxtistic” (as one mother of an autistic son put it) is because they don’t agree with a lot of things people in the Autistic community say. So it’s a way to try to silence us and discredit us by convincing people we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And in no way have I said or imply that every parent of an Autistic person is like this or thinks like this. So many are great allies to the Autistic community!
These are the common ableist judgemental comments Autistic people often experience.
This is exactly what I’m experiencing at the moment. #autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic #allautistics #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #stigma #ableism
This image is by @Autism_Sketches , it shows what the Autism spectrum actually looks like. It’s not linear and also level of functioning isn’t concrete as functioning abilities fluctuate continuously. #autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic #allautistics #AutismAcceptance… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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