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scipunk63

Sunflower Remake 2019.

#disney #fantasia #how cute

yourfavehatesautismspeaks

Luke Skywalker from Star Wars is autistic and hates Autism Speaks!

A special Star Wars Day post! May the Fourth be with you!

[Image Description: Two images set to the background of a flag with three stripes; the upper and lower stripes are both light red, the middle stripe is a darker red. The first image is of Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. He is wearing a white tunic, a dark belt, white trousers and a sort of off yellow boots. He is holding his blue lightsaber up in a fuelling stance and is looking at the viewer. The second image has the Autism Speaks logo crossed out with a red ‘no’ sign. End Description.]

longfatwang

Actually, Mark Hamill took part in a promotional video for Autism Speaks. A quick google search would tell you.

#fucking hell #no

walkingmusical

Okay, because idiots on here don’t seem to get it…. SELF DIAGNOSIS IS FUCKING DANGEROUS. AND IF YOU GO AROUND SAYING YOU’RE AUTISTIC WHEN YOU’RE NOT YOU ARE ACTUALLY HARMING AUTISTIC PEOPLE. BECAUSE YOU HAVE GIVEN A SHIT TON OF PEOPLE THE WRONG IDEA OF AUTSIM. A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO SELF DIAGNOSE THEMSELVES WITH AUTISM SEEM TO THINK THAT IT’S JUST A SEVERE FORM OF SOCIAL ANXIETY WHEN THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO THE DISORDER. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ON HERE DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT. IF YOU FOCUS TOO MUCH ON ONE DISORDER YOU DISMISS OTHER, MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS (E.G. A BRAIN TUMOUR). WHEN YOU LOOK AT SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IT’S EASY TO APPLY THEM TO YOURSELF. EVEN PROFESSIONALS SEE PROFESSIONALS. SELF DIAGNOSIS IS ABLEIST AS FUCK.

#yes #this #is #true

theconcealedweapon

Autistic people were autistic before they were diagnosed.

Most people who diagnose autism are neurotypical.

So if you're against self diagnosis, then you literally believe that autistic people must get permission from a neurotypical person before they can talk about their own experiences.

That's basically the literal definition of ableism.

longfatwang

Yes because none of these people who self diagnose have a doctorate in psychology. Make sense?

#autism #no

walkinredinstead

Self Diagnosis

So apparently it’s time for another self dx info post because people are gross

INFO:

basics

self diagnosis isn’t looking at one post and going “hey thats me, im autistic”

self diagnosis includes research and introspection

self diagnosis of multiple disorders is reasonable - comorbidity is common (see: autism and ADHD, ADHD and SPD, many personality disorders with each other, though more than one is rarely diagnosed due to overlapping traits)

self diagnosis doesn’t take away resources from anyone

the only people who don’t take a disorder seriously “because of” self diagnosis don’t take it seriously anyway

the DSM is available online

it doesn’t matter if they’re wrong - if they’re self diagnosing it’s because they had a problem and the resources and coping mechanisms within ____ community helped them.

re: doctors

many doctors refuse to diagnose

a lot of these reasons are racism and sexism

some traits/symptoms are internal and are therefore not seen by doctors

doctors diagnose based on behavior. people self-dx based on.. behavior.

re: racism, classism, sexism

many poc (especially black people) are diagnosed with “being {race}”

many people who are perceived as girls won’t be diagnosed because {sexist reason such as ‘girls cant get autism’ - yes thats a real reason people have been denied diagnosis}

going to a professional is expensive. it doesn’t matter if you were “obviously _____” or not - it’s expensive.

longfatwang

DOCTORS ARE LITERALLY NOT IN A POSITION TO DIAGNOSE. THEY ARE NOT MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. Also yes self diagnosis does actually take resources away from people.

#autism

mindingmyownbrain

“I am autistic.”

“You shouldn’t define yourself by your autism, sweetie. You should say that you are a person with autism, hun.”

“I’m not saying that I define myself solely as being autistic.”

“That’s great, sweetie. So are you high functioning or are you low functioning?”

longfatwang

What fucking part of this is funny. Identity first DOES actually reduce a person to their autism, that’s why it’s ableist and I will die on that hill.

#fuck off

laishlife

Self diagnosing yourself with autism hurts actual autistics

Please stop diagnosing yourself with autism just because you FEEL weird or random or quirky.

Autism is not a quirk or gender you can just assign to yourself. Autism is a very real and serious mental condition that can cause a lot of struggle and pain for people who truly have it.

Just pretending you have it with no real evidence does two things:

1.) It can give lots of people a wrong view of what autism looks like 2.) It can take resources away from people who are actually officially diagnosed with it and need the support for it more than you do.

So stop it because it’s incredibly destructive and incredibly insulting to people who actually have it.

tania-grey

“Just pretending you have it with no real evidence”

Thats probably the biggest valid point.

However, I have never seen a selfDX Autistic that doesnt first have evidence and research to support their claim.

I absolutely agree that people arbitrarily claiming Autism is haful to the community, making actual autistics nothing more than a fetishized mockery. It’s nearly as damaging as Autism ParentsTM.

…But as I stated above, all the selfDX Autistics I have encountered all have ample reason to believe they are actually autistic. I support anyone who selfDX themselves in all seriousness. There is no harm in people using stim toys or sensory items. There is no harm in learning from other Actually Autistic people in the community on how to function in day to day societal life.

As long as they have done their research, the Actually Autistic actually embraces selfDX- even if they later discover they are wrong. Why do we do this? Because we would rather help ease their frustrations of daily living, because we know SelfDX is often a stepping stone to getting the correct diagnosis. Because being misdiagnosed is completely unharmful to themselves or to us. After all, there’s a lot of over lap between diagnosis symptoms and, thereby, many of our coping skills work for the vast majority in the community- correct or incorrect.

Our community is only harmed by stigmas, turning us into tragedies, into inspiration stories, and those turning us into mockeried by faking being Autistic- and above all, by A$ and Autism ParentsTM!

dogged-hot

Also, as a professionally diagnosed autistic myself… what resources would they be taking away? What scarcity would arise from people genuinely self-diagnosing with autism?

Had I not been diagnosed when I was 3, I probably wouldn’t have been diagnosed as an adult. Why? Because of the way women are socialized, we’re taught to mask all of our symptoms. I mask to the point where even other autistic people sometimes can’t tell unless I let them know.

Women have a lot more trouble getting diagnosed than men do, and so do other marginalized groups (esp poc), because the stereotype is that autistic people are white boys/men. This then makes white boys/men the only people seen as autistic, which perpetuates the stereotype, and the cycle continues.

longfatwang

Things like bus passes...no wait, you have to provide evidence of disability for them.

#autism

imbehindascreen-blog

Dear Selfdxers,

There is no easy way to say this, especially on a platform like Tumblr. Despite it, I know I need to get this off my chest. Do not EVER diagnose yourself with anything. You are NOT a professional and you do NOT have the years of training they go under. When you do this, you are an insult to the psychology field. I come from a line of mental disorders and those who are trained to recognize them. Although I am mostly clean of anything serious, I live in a house of people that aren’t.

ADHD, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety..

The list goes on for my brother and mother. I spent years taking care of them when their moods spiked and dropped and when the two clashed. Self dxers absolutely disgust me and I wonder how you can live with yourself like that. If you use self diagnosis, stop it and go to someone who is actually trained to figure out what’s wrong with you. If you can’t “afford” an appointment, then why the hell are you claiming to have this disorder anyway? You’re doing it for attention, that’s why. Yeah I may get some hate for this, but I don’t care. I have talked to my share of therapists and have even asked them their opinion on self dxers and the response is all the same: DO NOT DO IT. You are not qualified to make that decision. Got a problem with what I’m saying? Leave. It only proves you can’t handle the truth.

#YES

trvffula-deactivated20200530

Basically, Illumination had an official Lorax website that I recently found out got shut down??

But I screenshot these back in 2017, they were all character descriptions that I personally found both silly yet interesting?? So figured I’d share due to it’s closure, and I’m not sure if anyone else ever mentioned them before.

#the lorax