dpnash , 14 days ago

@cybervegan @loops @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @neurodiversity @autisticadvocacy For some additional context:

This isn't just stuff #ActuallyAutistic people hear as kids (although there's plenty of messed-up shit that happens in childhood as well).

I experienced the first of these (minus the "a little bit", of course) when I was 39, and the second when I was 44. I had a severely messed-up family that did a strikingly good job of hiding how they really felt about aspects of my being ... until they knew that revealing them would be devastating.