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BrokenDownAlien
@saturnloft
Writer. Photographer. Artist.
Nov 24, 2019 • 79 tweets • 11 min read
Is Autism Self-Diagnosis Valid? A Very Long Thread

TL, DR: Yes. It’s valid.

Now for the long version: there are some folks on Twitter that say that some of us have no right to claim we are #ActuallyAutistic without an official diagnosis by a medical authority of some kind. There are some problems with this mentality. One of the biggest is that some of us simply do not have adequate access to the formal diagnostic process. There are many things that can affect access:
lack of financial resources, social anxieties or phobias —