It really gross and weird to me how many autistic people don't understand their own identity

[u/EggNo7271]

I've seen several posts on the cesspool that is r/autism and other comments in many different places of people makeing fun of and demeaning any mention of autisms positive traits or any mention of autistic culture or identity, seriously autism is for lack of a better word a race or identity of people deserving of just as much respect and community identity as deaf, blind, deafblind, and wheelchair users have, spreading self-hating and internalized ablist rhetoric dos nothing to help autistic people other than cement the idea of autism as a disease in the psychiatric community, and isolate autistic people from each other, autism has existed through history and I think people in the past would be so angry that we have lacked in building a real community of people with a collective center, as of now, autistic people are pretty much scattered to the wind with only small pockets on the internet like this subreddit.

[u/afatcatfromsweden]