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10:47pm July 28, 2014
Anonymous asked: I really appreciate that you are openly supportive of self-diagnosis/ers. It's frustrating to have to need validation from those professionally diagnosed for community acceptance, but in the end it does make things a little easier and it really helps people like me feel welcome in an otherwise hostile space.

It is frustrating to me that I even need to express my support of self-diagnosed people.  It’s frustrating to me that my professional diagnosis gives me more credibility in some people’s eyes than you have.  These things are infuriating to me, because I don’t see self-dxed people as fundamentally different from professionally-dxed people or semi-dxed  or peer-dxed people or any of the other diagnostic states that exist.  I’ve simply known too many autistic people, read too many things by autistic people, to see any difference at all in overall life experience between those who managed to get a diagnosis and those who didn’t.

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