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Autistic person vs 'expert on autism'

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It never ceases to amaze me how quickly some people go from  being a newly diagnosed autistic person to positioning themselves as 'experts' on all matters to do with autism.

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  • I am surprised by this. I know that many autistic people have written books to try to explain what autism is like, but I wasn't aware that newly diagnosed/discovered autistic people were positioning themselves as "experts" on all matters relating to it. Is this on social media? How do we know they are actually autistic and not just pretending to be, to make money out of vulnerable people?

  • in reply to Lotus

    I was unaware of this, but then not using social media I probably wouldn't be.

    I'd wonder about the motivations of those trying to monetise it would make me sceptical too and I hate being told how to be, what to think, and what I "ought" to do. I think ought is a word that should be expunged from the English language, it's such a judgemental word.

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  • in reply to Lotus

    I was unaware of this, but then not using social media I probably wouldn't be.

    I'd wonder about the motivations of those trying to monetise it would make me sceptical too and I hate being told how to be, what to think, and what I "ought" to do. I think ought is a word that should be expunged from the English language, it's such a judgemental word.

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