Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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How offensive it is to see the point at which a medical professional finally notices that a girl is autistic described as ‘a late onset of symptoms’.
Fork that.
We are born autistic & we remain autistic. It’s part of who we are. When or whether we are noticed depends on the extent to which we are punished for our sensitivities, how well we learn to hide them & whether our ways of coping with an overwhelming world are seen as problematic (as they often are in boys) or as just our being shy and cute (girls).
Autistic folx have been talking about this for ages. How slow the ‘experts’ are to catch up.
And they wonder why we don’t take them seriously 😹
