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🔸#ActuallyAutistic 🔸Mother 🔸Artist 🔸 PhD (Disability and social justice) 🔸https://t.co/LXkRdKH0DD
Apr 10, 2019 12 tweets 4 min read
1) A year ago today I was officially DX #Autistic at the age of 36. I spent most of my life knowing I was somehow fundamentally different to people around me but didn’t know how to explain it beyond saying “I’m different” #ActuallyAutistic #Autism 2) Prior to official DX I was Self DX for about 18 months. I will forever be grateful to the #ActuallyAutistic community who gave me support and didn’t use my lack of an official DX to insult, bully and exclude me. God knows I’ve experienced enough of that sort of behaviour ...