Published on 12, July, 2020
Someone on LinkedIn claimed that I'm not autistic based on a single comment I made in relation to a thread by Pete Wharmby, author of 'Untypical'. Un-diagnosing an autistic person is very irresponsible. By doing it, you're doubting a person who has possibly spent decades not knowing who they are and why they struggle so much in a world not designed for them.
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I screwed up in a big way on social media last year, and someone suggested that I couldn't be autistic because an autistic person wouldn't do such a bad thing, even though autism is 100% context for what happened.
Other autistic people on Twitter expected me to deal with it like a neurotypical person. I'm still incredibly angry about it. No one ever defended me.