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Fake-claiming Autistic People and DID Systems is Ignorant
I’ve experienced being fake-claimed for both, and I refuse to do so to others.
Trigger Warning: mentions CSA and OEA
As a general rule, I make it a point not to fake-claim people on the internet. I might question whether someone really is autistic or a Dissociative Identity Disorder (or OSDD) system, but only to friends.
Even then, I will have doubts that I am correct because you cannot know someone’s reality or lived experience from interacting or watching them on the internet.
People don’t want to admit that there are late-diagnosed autistic people for a lot of reasons. Parents don’t want to admit that their kids may not have needed 40 hours of a grueling masking factory’s alleged therapy.
Some early diagnosed white cis men who were coddled by their mommies no longer feel so special now that so many people have a diagnosis or self-identify as autistic.
The government doesn’t want so many autistics identified because we might want to get on disability (Then how about allowing for more remote jobs then?).
The mental health community doesn’t want to admit that they did so many women, BIPOC people, and some men who didn’t fit the presumed mold of…
