@dave@gaveen@LALegault@fishidwardrobe that's the fun thing about community... none of us is individually the authority on these things, it's a matter of consensus, not original intent. Even moreso on a public ActivityPub space, if you want a private space there are options for that.
I remember the #ActuallyAutistic tag coming into existence... it wasn't a "space" at all, it was just originally us just speaking out against those who would speak over us. Over time it became a differentiator of referencing us vs the people who would speak over us (ie. #autism in older spaces... <cough>twitter<cough> is flooded with non-autistics speaking on our behalf while #ActuallyAutistic is where you find us).
After a while, it started getting used in group names to differentiate us as being autistic led spaces, but not necessarily autistic private spaces.