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And everyone has to pee but if you have to do it 40 times a day you should have that looked at 🙄

So much this!

I have no issues with veganism but I do have issues with being attacked because I'm not vegan. I've been attacked for using cow milk even after explaining that I can't use plant milk because of sensory issues.

Funnily enough, just like you said, I know vegans IRL who would never behave that way and of course I accommodate their dietary choices when I'm in charge of food.

I think it's mostly an Internet thing when you just see the loudest minority instead of the more quiet majority.

And don't you dare tell a vegan you can't drink anything with plant milk!

Let me put it this way. I've been with my husband for 20 years now and back then we both thought we were NT. By now we both know we're not 😂

And part of my comment explained why this is not always an option.

You keep assuming that people don't use their self diagnosis as a springboard to work on themselves and finally having the right tools to do so. A lot of people don't use their self diagnosis to feel special, it's an explanation to them for why they are the way they are and how to help themselves.

A lot of us self diagnosed people are part of the lost generation mentioned in one of the papers above. When I was a child, autism without a learning disability wasn't even recognized. It just didn't exist and I had to cope until I went into burnout several times. It took until I found a young therapist to even learn that my problems might be caused by autism. My GP still is of the opinion I couldn't be autistic because I can look into his eyes.

(And for what it's worth, I'm not officially diagnosed because in my city of close to 2mil people there are exactly two places that diagnose adults and only one of them has experience diagnosing women.)

You mean people like Dr Devon Price?

"I want autistic people to experience less shame of who they are and to learn how to take off the masks that have trapped us for decades. The first step towards that includes accepting who you are. You don't need a piece of paper from an assessor to do that."

(Unmasking autism)

The pink ones are kinda translucent and barely visible for me. I don't mind people seeing them so I might have a few different colors to match my outfit but in professional settings I usually wear the pink ones.

Personally, I wear noise cancelling headphones and listen to audiobooks but not music while shopping when I go alone.

When I go shopping with my husband I always wear my Loop engage. They come in several colors and there's a pink version that (for me) is almost invisible. I can still hold a conversation and hear people talking to me but it's way less noisy.

It's an older tweet, you can find it here

I love it as well, it explains it so well. Labels are there so you can find the community and the help that you need.

"Why do you need a label? Bc there is comfort in knowing you're a normal zebra, not a strange horse. Bc you can't find community with other zebras if you don't know you belong. And bc it's impossible for a zebra to live a happy and healthy life feeling like a failed horse."