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Autistic People are STILL Being Mocked Online
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Does TikTok Think You're Autistic? | 4 Bizarre Autism Tests:
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Autistic Influencer BULLIED off Social Media:
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Not Stimming is MORE dangerous than you think...:
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📒 Sources 📒:

Fake Disorder Cringe:   / fakedisordercringe  

TikTok Rap: https://www.tiktok.com/@hell0kittyglo...

TikTok Rap by other person: https://www.tiktok.com/@dykotomy/vide...

BPS Article: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/a...

Stimming National Autistic Society: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-...

Wikipedia page Stimming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming

LUSH: https://www.lush.com/uk/en?gad_source...

Stimming vs Tics: https://www.treatmyocd.com/what-is-oc...

Why do some autistic people stim?: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-...

DSM-5: https://www.tricare-west.com/content/...

Not A Mental Illness: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-...

Number of Undiagnosed Autistic People: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

Autism Identity and the Lost Generation: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10...

Development and Validation of a Novel Self-Report Measure of Monotropism in Autistic and Non-Autistic People: The Monotropism Questionnaire: https://osf.io/ft73y/

“It feels like holding back something you need to say”: Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults accounts of sensory experiences and stimming: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

00:00 The most Ableist place?
00:30 You have BPD, actually.
05:05 You don't understand stimming is, sir
12:00 Self-diagnosis is pushing back mental health care?
19:53 RUN away from this Dr
20:27 When self-diagnosis is NOT valid

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Aspergirls by Rudy Simone:
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Different not Less by Chloe Hayden (read if you want to cry):
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Unmasking Autism by Devon Price:
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DISCLAIMER: I am a second-year psychology student and a late-diagnosed #actuallyautistic individual. I am not a qualified healthcare professional.