Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Everyone's gaslighting us saying “Autism is over diagnosed.”
They think that because I wasn’t diagnosed till 39 that I must be doing it for attention - faking it?
Because they didn’t call me autistic when I was a kid?
No…
They called me annoying.
They called me gullible.
They called me rude.
They called me a tool.
They called me immature, shy, too much, awkward…a re—d.
They bullied me, or told me to just try harder.
We’ve always been here. They just called us something else.
And now that we have a diagnosis, it reveals their behavior as what it truly was, and is - cruelty. That’s why they walk around shouting that we aren’t actually autistic - our diagnosis gives us credibility in the face of their ableism.
They don’t like how it calls them out. #ActuallyAutistic
Everyone's gaslighting us saying “Autism is over diagnosed.”
They think that because I wasn’t diagnosed till 39 that I must be doing it for attention - faking it?
Because they didn’t call me autistic when I was a kid?
No…
They called me annoying.
They called me gullible.
They called me rude.
They called me a tool.
They called me immature, shy, too much, awkward…a re—d.
They bullied me, or told me to just try harder.
We’ve always been here. They just called us something else.
And now that we have a diagnosis, it reveals their behavior as what it truly was, and is - cruelty. That’s why they walk around shouting that we aren’t actually autistic - our diagnosis gives us credibility in the face of their ableism.
They don’t like how it calls them out. #ActuallyAutistic
