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  1. For years, authorities and others in positions of power have made it very clear that autistic people’s experiences wouldn’t be taken seriously without a diagnosis.

    And now, in some quarters at least, we're the ones being blamed for overloading the system 🤷‍♀️

    #ClinicalPsychology #ActuallyAutistic #LateDiagnosed #Diagnosis #Autism #UtaFrith

  2. “[…] Dear Dame #UtaFrith, and all other like-minded people, that’s how big it is. This is a genie that you will not be able to stuff back in the bottle. It seems sometimes that you have all the power. You don’t.”
    – Heta Pukki, President of the European Council of Autistic People

    Click: eucap.eu/the-meaning-of-the-sp

    #EUCAP #autism #autismspectrum #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #neurodiverse #ProfoundAutism

  3. Because a ‘world without autism’ isn't abstract.
    It's a world without autistic people. 🙎🏽‍♀️🙎🏾🙎🏻‍♀️

    There’s also a deeper issue here.

    Autistic people aren't believed about our own experiences. Or we don't get asked at all.

    #UtaFrith said it would be unscientific to do so. More on her views here: mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116206

    5/11

  4. CW: Uta Frith's views on autism 😱

    Replying to Uta Frith's views, one by one.

    With thanks to all the members of the autistic community who've informed me & inspired me to write this thread.

    For those lucky not to know about her article in The Times, and various other related statements, links at the end.

    CW: it's upsetting 😟

    A thread 🧵

    #UtaFrith #Research #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent