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Starrie

736d

Does any other autistic get invalidated by autistic stereotypes? I’ve been told I’m not autistic because I have friends.

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    • CloverDeer

      728d

      Im told im not autistic because i act normal, which is kinda rude. Autistic people are normal people too.

    • CloverDeer

      728d

      Im told im not autistic because i act normal, which is kinda rude. Autistic people are normal people too.

    • Coyote_Daniels

      735d

      Yes, I’ve been told that I probably don’t need an accommodations at school because I’m a good student. As if that means that I’m not struggling as well! Do they want me to, like, have more meltdowns?

    • Hoppie

      735d

      Yes, that's happened to me too, especially because I've been masking so long, and at this point I've gotten fairly good at it. It's really strange to me that there's an assumption that autistics don't have friends.

    • SixxCrows

      736d

      They don't understand that yoy cant really pinpoint autism with stereotypes

    • Feferi

      736d

      Yes it's so frustrating!! I've been told so many times that "I don't look autistic" or whatever bullcrap reason they use

      • Starrie

        736d

        @Feferi I hate that!!! Like what is autistic supposed to look like?

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