It’s ptsd avoided via appropriation
The #ActuallyAutistic “community” :
The #ActuallyAutistic “community” by large is populated with netizens who have developed an online culture leaking ever more poisonously IRL. As someone who has been medically scientifically studied in childhood in the 90s as part of genetic research on autism, thus part of the actual autistic community for longer than it seems any of the members of #ActuallyAutistic I feel qualified to clap back on the hypocrisy that defines this movement. As someone with high functioning ASD and severe CPTSD (o no! I’m ableist to myself by recognizing my level of disability according to the #ActuallyAutistic!) and after YEARS of talking about the #ActuallyAutistic phenomenon as it emerged with professional therapists, doctors, scientists, etc. I’m here to let it be known that the #ActuallyAutistic by large seem more accurately to be suffering from undiagnosed CPTSD that they have misdiagnosed themselves as part of ASD instead. Pathologizing one’s own disordered behaviors and quirked personality with autism is a relief because it more easily explains the sensory phenomenae of living in near constant dissociation states than the complexity of CPTSD while also rendering those dissociative states as inherent and natural, just things to be accepted rather than something to work on which is hugely alleviating to any sense of personality responsibility in healing what is ultimately early life abandonment trauma.
The #ActuallyAutistic “community” by large is anti child. Again, another leftist stance to take is the child free stance. Children are generally just unruly and gross according to these people (not totally wrong lol) and to be kept in family homes- the public is NO place for kids and people should only be part of society after sexually matured. They proudly admit “I hate kids” whenever given the chance and often go on completely unprovoked tirades about “Stop pressuring me to have kids!” in settings where no one has done such a thing. Yet at any opportunity of seeing a parent even ask the most sincere and innocent advice on helping their severely autistic child from literally hurting themselves and others, the popular clap back I’ve read literally hundreds of times is “Just admit you hate your kid” and I’ve seen MANY of you do that exact thing. This is a projection whose root I will ultimately address soon enough!
Yes autistic people need more accommodations and that’s what the #ActuallyAutistic want which those suffering from CPTSD were so starved of from their parents. The attempt to illuminate any differential labels of severity of disability on the spectrum, therefore obliterating the very concept of what a spectrum is in order to appropriate it, is an attempt to say “*I*/“every autistic person” needs as much accommodations as any other autistic person”!! (I DO NOT need the accomodations my sister does and that’s just a fact. To claim that I do not being ableist against myself is absurd but there’s more logic manipulation (famously a disqualifying behavior for ASD diagnosis dismissed as another “gatekeeping” tactic) - by dismissing any disability as a part of someone’s undeniably more severe autistic experience as a “comorbidity” (a grave misuse of this medical term altogether) serves an attempt to simultaneously redefine and redirect any and all already extremely scant accommodations for autistic individuals from those who can’t even speak for themselves as part of their autism or what they call “comorbidities”. They have already, mostly via rallying through the social media of “The Neurodivergent Rebel”, successfully diverted funds from some organizations already with these ideas all while berating parents of severely disabled autistic children as being ableist and actively hating their children by seeking any accommodations or supports. This apparent rampant collective narcissistic manipulation from the adult self diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic “community” by large is in itself flagrantly symptomatic of the CPTSD that is very likely truly under all this, most poignantly highlighted by the hatred of parents. I’ve read thousands of individual comments under the actual hashtag #ActuallyAutistic from people who have recently self diagnosed that “my parents abused me because I’m autistic” even tho they admittedly had no diagnosis in childhood. They look back and recognize that they were abused but it’s much easier to blame The Autism they have mistaken from their CPTSD symptoms; this is because the core of the guilt and shame from such deep abandonment is still self blame, so blaming a condition rather than the self helps hold the parents more responsible while also rendering the self irresponsible too from the huge lifelong work of trauma recovery. No wonder they get mad at the notion of anyone suffering from disability due to autism- no wonder to them it is their “superpower” because it has rescued them in these ways from dealing with any dissociative narcissistic tendencies as a result of CPTSD full on consciously. I have spent several years now working with professionals on this subject via my own experience with both diagnoses to my name and I’ve sat on my hands quite long enough on this. I could write a book on the subject and professional therapists (one of which who was working on her PhD told me “you really out to share my doctorate degree”) have encouraged me to do as much. Another irl example of the Dunning-Kruger effect I reckon.
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