@ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic
Understanding the past from an AUTISTIC rather than an ALLISTIC perspective is inherently part of being a community
You have a choice. Accept that history as YOURS. Or declare it as something that you reject.
Both are Not Possible.

if you post "we universally are like this" without specifying it means "people who just found out"
and saying it under the category #ActuallyAutistic
The implication is that you think these are the same

@ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic sitting down with "autism predates the current definition in the pathology book" means not centering the damn book as somehow inherently authoritative.

Im saying this as someone diagnosed ODD. A label that sent my disabled
Non gifted, non wasp peers
Into some kind of containment system,
Go watch the interviews and videos about JRC shock torture
Understand that those victims aren't appreciably different from people i was in sped with.

@CatHat @ahrimans_erbe @pathfinder @actuallyautistic
I was born in the 1970s. There was no autism spectrum.
To be autistic back then was a debilitating thing. The kind of thing that got you institutionalized.
Back then, if you were functional at all, you weren't called autistic. You were maybe "willfull" or "violent" or "dangerous". Maybe "stupid" or "not paying attention" or just "weird". But the treatment was all behavioral modification against your will. It was punishment.

I'm also transgender and using the DSM as a diagnostic tool kept me from figuring out it for at least an extra two or three years. It was bullshit. Trans people, similar to neurodiverse people, are better at diagnosing people based on shared, lived experiences than doctors the Doctors who've studied us.