4:05am May 13, 2013

Note to doctors diagnosing me

josiahd:

I told you that I know autistic people, and you said that was almost certainly a narrow range compared to what exists.

I don’t get why you’d assume that.

Autistic people live in the world. The same world I live in. All of us.

So why assume that the only autistic people I’ve met are all highly verbal and in a range of social oddness?

That’s not anywhere close to true.

I asked a friend and got an answer for you.

It’s because they aren’t talking about reality at all. They assume you’re talking about the online autistic community, and they have a vested interest in believing that the online autistic community is built only if “not really that autistic” people. Therefore, they do this. Don’t try to find logic.

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