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Why do people think it's OK to be autistic?

Sickle Moon

I don't feel accepted and supported, I just feel defective, judged by everyone, and guilty for what I've done to my family. I know we're all entitled to our opinions and feelings, and that we all think differently, but I just really don't understand why some autistic people 'celebrate' it and think it's OK to be autistic when I honestly don't think there is anything less OK in the entire world, particularly when you're a woman and it's such a man's condition. I often feel my strong sense of identity as a female is being stolen from me.

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  • Why is it a mans things? I don't go as far as to say I am better for " having "it" " and i don't think of "it" as something I "have" just part of who I am which is more different from others than I am expected to be. However the more i look at the bad qualities in people I find that they are strictly NT qualities. I think the ideal person is a balance of NT and autism.

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  • Why is it a mans things? I don't go as far as to say I am better for " having "it" " and i don't think of "it" as something I "have" just part of who I am which is more different from others than I am expected to be. However the more i look at the bad qualities in people I find that they are strictly NT qualities. I think the ideal person is a balance of NT and autism.

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  • in reply to photonic_electrons

    Do you mind being different? And it's a man's thing because everyone thinks of it as a man's thing. There are still people who don't think autistic girls exist. Also, women are meant to be more empathic and loving. I love being female and I value being female so much; I'm sitting here sobbing thinking of all this diagnosis has taken from me and how it doesn't let me be a woman.