@DrSafariBoob here's something i wrote on reddit a couple of months ago:

this is just my experience:

you are told for the first 30 years that you are just a "crazy bitch".

you go to a psychologist and they diagnose you with bpd.

you then spend the next 10 years letting everyone take advantage of you because youve been told that your problem is your personality and it needs to be altered to make you and everyone around you happy. you get treated like shit by coworkers and friends, all with a smile on your face because you are the the cause of why they treat you like crap, not that they are bad people.

you are then diagnosed with autism and are told that you need to advocate for yourself. you do and ask for help with things or to change your environment to make yourself more comfortable with just existing. the people who tell you that they will love you no matter what start saying that youre now completely self-absorbed and self-centered, and that all you do is use your autism as an excuse because you ask other people to accommodate you more than you used to.

this whole thing is exhausting.

#actuallyautistic @autistics