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autism can be an invisible disability.
but saying “autism is an invisible disability” is widely inaccurate & borderline aspie supremacist.
for many of us, our autism is highly visible and i don’t mean the “dress a little quirky a lil absent minded cover our ears when loud noises” just a lil weird kind of visible
this post is for those of us who can’t mask, who high support needs, who nonverbal, who stims all. the. time. who just want to be told “you don’t look autistic” for once in their life, those who will e never appear “normal,” those of us who cannot hide those of us who appear disabled to untrained eye.
yes technically if you know what to look for, anyone’s autism can be visible. yes visible depends on context. no this post not about you.
this post is not about high masking people. you all have so many posts already give us one space to talk about us. make your own post
reblog this version goddamn it
by highly visible autism i mean “able tell first few glance” not “well if look close and know where look and depend on when and how feel if am chose stimming and—”
For me it’s still mostly invisible, as in you won’t guess it from just seeing someone stand in place?
Missing limb is visible. Down syndrome is visible. Blindness is visible.
It counts in specific situation though, like ‘will you be screamed at for using disables parking space’ stuff. It’s not universal.
so. apologize for am having trouble understand. if by “for me it still mostly invisible” you mean your own autism mostly invisible, then cool, nothing to say to that, ignore next paragraph, other than brief “on post centering visibly autistic, why feel need talk about that”
but if by “for me it still mostly invisible” you mean “for me (all) autism still fall in invisible category,” even after post talking about how it can be highly visible, from someone who visibly autistic, to put in kindest way possible suggest you get out of own circle of curated autistic people & actually meet entire spectrum. because autistics who cannot mask (of all support needs) exist. because autistics whose symptoms so debilitating or present in certain way, cannot hide it, exist. because high support needs autistic people exist. because nonverbal nonspeaking autistic people exist. because autistics who move in ways that immediately scream “developmentally disabled!” exist. because autistics who just stand there n stranger can still tell autistic or something wrong, exist. because if you do mean what this paragraph assumes you mean, you so blatantly ignoring & speaking over us, & feel like you have authority define our own experience for us over us, in post made by us for us outlining ways we visible
also invite you to learn about visible difference vs visible disability. n how two overlap sometimes and how they separate distinct.
That’s why I specifically said “seeing someone stand in place”.
As far as I’m aware, autism doesn’t disfigure your body in a way that makes it visually apparent. Which makes you more vunerable to, for example, people screaming at you for using disabled parking spaces.
That’s all I said. Hope it’s clear this time.
once again. need you educate self about difference between visibly disabled versus visibly different before engaging again.
yes most of autism* don’t inherently cause visible differences. which is why this post about visible disability and not visible differences.
yes, if hold an autistic person without other comorbidities in one position. and frozen in time & place. probably not able tell visible difference. because it not visible difference. n never once said it was. we agree on that.
1) but. from get go, am already super clear am talking about visible disability not visible differences.
2) but then you use example where time free flowing—whether or not be judged in disabled parking spaces. because can assure you there autistic person who just exist there, whether stand or sit or whatever, n naturally move body hold body exhibit symptoms in way that visible within one glance despite no visible difference. that’s why say it can be visible disability.
also encourage you think more abt implied idea of… ya know, know many instances of people with visible differences be yelled at for taking disability dedicated spaces like disabled parking lots.
*ETA there also many congenital & genetic & chromosomal disorders that do cause visible difference & they highly associated with autism (maybe even safe to say they cause the autism). visible difference still caused by said congenital genetic chromosomal disorders but they often do tangled with autism it hard to untangle. hence why be safe & say “most of”. idk just feel like convo isn’t complete without explicitly acknowledging this even tho like, not inherent autism alone