Oh, honey. Y’all KNOW how I feel about gatekeeping, right?

Here is an example of it in the #ActuallyAutistic community. This needs to stop.

People say if you’re self-dx’ed OBVIOUSLY you’re not really autistic/don’t know about ableism, or else you’d be dx’ed. First of all 1/

https://twitter.com/AutismEmployme1/status/1042596331334729728

Ableism is, often, the EXACT REASON we don’t have a formal dx. That and other forms of bigotry.

So many of us were labeled as “problem children” instead of getting the dx & supports we needed in school. This is esp true of those of use who were born before ~ 1995...2/