REALLY sick of hearing about how you have the experience to make value judgements about the experience of being diagnosed as a child.
I get that the diagnosis is a revelation.
And it is. I agree .
But i want to puke remembering how that "privilege" was used to justify telling kids "IF you manage to prove that you are able to emulate a person you can be awarded honorary adult status"
Otherwise you count as something between a child and an animal
@CatHat This is curious. I don’t feel #special because I “successfully” #masked all these decades. I can’t know if it would have been better had I been #DX as a kid. I never got into real trouble, but there are many parts of my youth I don’t care to remember. It was awful. Each time I peeled back the #onion, thinking that I knew why, there was more. Now I know #AuDHD was underneath it all. Not alone but there. @actuallyautistic#ActuallyAutistic