Self Diagnosis Isn’t ‘Valid.’ It’s Liberatory.

If Autism is a neutral source of human diversity, why the hell would we need to diagnose it?

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A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email that the editor of the publication Artfully Autistic had sent to one of their writers. The writer had just finished working on a piece in support of self diagnosis, in which she referenced…