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Just to let you guys know that I’m starting a blog called Inartistic Autistic combating popular stereotypes about Autism through self-advocacy by sharing my personal experience as a person with Autism. The URL is:

I actually found out about Autigender the other week. I had to laugh! As an autistic person who is biologically a male but falls on the girly side of the gender spectrum, Autigender angers the living shit out of me. Not just Autigender but just how far this gender crap has gone as a whole. While Autism can affect people’s perspections of the world and to an extent affects how they percieve gender, to claim Autism as an actual gender in and of itself especially if you're not autistic is taking the absolute mick out of both gender and Autism which is a fricking difference in neurology. While I do believe gender to be a vast, complex and beautiful thing that is widely misunderstood, this isn’t it. This rush to make EVERYTHING a gender issue has come to the point when even Autism and bloody mental illnesses in general are “cute” and “adorable things” to try on by neurotypical people completely misunderstanding the situation. While I would never feel so audacious as to call them "neurotypical scum" since that is ableism in another form and disrespectful to my neurotypical family, friends and all my supporters, it's certainly a desperate and quite a low/dispeciable thing to do. Need I remind people that mental illnesses including depression leads to people KILLING themselves? And that autistic people like me suffer from really bad depression/anxiety/internal hatred? It’s no wonder we live in a world where me and my fellow people with autism are being misunderstood every day when we have this to put up this. These people should be absolutely disgusted with themselves for taking this desire to be the special snowflake of the day to unlogical extremes. Before I'm accused of being biogted and having internalised ableism, I am coming at this from somebody struggling with gender and to a lesser extent their Autism and I am not normally one to critise people for their gender. If you identify as Autigender AND are actually autistic then that's perfectly fine IMO and I will support you as a fellow Aspie and I think you are an absolute star for speaking out and refusing to be silenced. I may not personally identify as such but if your genuine autism affects your gender that much that you feel the need to gender yourself as such, then that's perfectly reasonable. As long as you respect how my Autism affects me, then I will not critise you for identifying you as Autigender and will support you in any way I can. Aspies unite! But this lengthy rant is about the neurotypical, mentally well people wearing Autism and mental illness as the latest “in” gender in order to get attention. Yes, these are the same people who we tend to refer to as special snowflakes. Yes, these are the very same people who will gender ANYTHING. In cases like that, there isn’t even an actual gender TO critise there. Also, if we could not put these self-made maytrs without a cause on a massive pedastle (which seems to be a trend on the #autigender tags) then I and probably a lot of my fellow Aspies whenever they identify as Autigender or not would greatly appricate it. And for the record, autistic people can have different sexualities and genders. But Autism isn’t a gender in and of itself if it's just your neurotypical victim complex talking. Next thing you’ll know, we’ll have people turning death into a gender even though they're actually alive! I know I'll probably get a lot of hate for this and that this isn't exactly the most popular opinion but this is me standing up for myself as well as my fellow people with Autism who are starting to get sick of the reckless and potentially lethal misrepesentation going on and I am not letting my voice be silenced by neurotypical "experts" who actually know nothing about either gender nor Autism. Yes we are not living in an eternal state of oppression but Autism is a widely misunderstood condition, many of us have had to go through bullying and critism our whole lives and THIS is quite frankly doing EVERYTHING to make it worse. Absolutely disgusting and completely rediculous. To sum all this up: if you identify as having autigender or any other gender defined by nurological differences/mental illnesses without having the actual condition, then you are clearly happy to use marglinzed populations to boost your own victim complex and are clearly a sad, horrible and pathetic person.