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Everyone's a little bit autistic...

Joe

At the moment this expression really annoys me, together with "we're all on the spectrum". I don't know if everyone is or I just happen to know a lot of people that are.  I can't suddenly tell if someone is autistic due to my own diagnosis.   I'm fairly newly diagnosed and didn't say anything until I was, because I wasn't sure if people would believe me. 

This expression really bugs me as I feel like it's people not listening to or belittling my lived experience.  I want to challenge it but I don't know how other just cutting people off giving me negative energy, any ideas?

Parents

  • In my teens I had honestly thought that I was gay and what I’m getting from this thread is that many of the (similar) issues about autism I’ve been hearing within the gay/LGBT community for years are starting to appear in discussions about autism - there was also a survey done a while back and it showed that a certain percentage of LGBT people also have autism/ASD and vice versa 

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  • In my teens I had honestly thought that I was gay and what I’m getting from this thread is that many of the (similar) issues about autism I’ve been hearing within the gay/LGBT community for years are starting to appear in discussions about autism - there was also a survey done a while back and it showed that a certain percentage of LGBT people also have autism/ASD and vice versa 

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  • in reply to IrishInManchesterUK

    I see similarities but maybe that's because I am also gay. I did recently write a poem called Coming Out #2 which I posted on FB to let people I hadn't told know I am Autistic. 

    I've also just written a blog for work where I talk about that, how I can't change either.  That there are similarities in the LGBT community with masking to try and fit in and that's its under diagnosed.

    I finish the blog though asking people not to say "everyone's a little bit autistic", "maybe it's because you're older", "you don't look autistic" and "we're all on the spectrum" but instead to listen and hear our lived in experience.

    Bit cheesy maybe