Since my diagnosis, I have realized the main reason I never considered that I was autistic is because every depiction of autism I ever saw was so far from my own experience. But if anyone wants to understand it better, seek out books written by autistic people instead of those discussing it from the outside.
@unabogie@actuallyautistic I suffered another of those people who dismiss us with “all on the spectrum” crap yesterday. I tried to explain there is no spectrum. To help her understand I asked her to imagine a giant bell. The dome of the bell is all the #NT majority.— the further from the centre the less “typical”. The rim of the bell is the #neurodivergent population, those most. But as you go round the rim they aren’t all degrees of divergence, they’re all different in different ways.