L30s silly!!!

I also want to remind everyone that self diagnosis is valid because Black people will get “diagnosed” with “Oppositional Defiant Disorder” at the drop of a hat, but especially if they’re autistic. Autistic. Fucking autistic. I have a friend who is literally the sweetest man in existence. Family man, absolute nerd who works in IT, obsessed with cartoons and will cry over a dog. Very clearly on the spectrum (we say that as someone on the spectrum). Did he get diagnosed with autism? Nope. Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I want you to look up the “symptoms” of that disorder and look me in my eyes and tell me that’s not racism.

Self diagnosis is fucking valid because our health care system is fucking broken, beyond the cost and shitty insurance. Do not hitch your entire existence in mental health to this kind of a system, because it will betray you at some point. I’m not saying don’t get help. But just remember to be so careful bowing to our fascist mental health overlords.

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the way people crouch and do little bounces/bows to say hello, i’m friendly! the way they punch as a substitute for pointing or waving hello. the slow pulling out of weapon as a threat, quickly removing armor to show you are peaceful. sticking little signs in the ground and writing messages. the way people‘s avatars go still when they are thinking, or laughing so much their hands came off the keyboard. square eye contact. jumping, spinning, bobbing your head to music. punching your friend jokingly.

half of it is human perception but the other half is ways of communication we created ourselves, because people just are like that. they express themselves.