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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic
- That you're not a real autist (mainly by society, this is not directed at people following the hashtag or group) if you masked well enough to not be discovered until you were an adult

- Tying into the above: that if you don't fit into the narrow view of yesteryears of what autism is (which often includes being white and male ...), you're also not autistic

- That high/low functioning is a sliding scale on one axle: if you're "low functioning" within one area, that means you are in *all* areas, and that if you're "high functioning" then you never need any support

- That high/low functioning is a useful metric in any way. This ties into the prior one: yes, knowing for each individual what support they need is important, but a non-verbal person with a special interest tying into something like programming and who gets to WFH might do a *lot* better than someone who on the surface seems allistic because they know how to do smalltalk, they know how to do these various things ... but no one looks behind the curtain where the person is exhausted all the time due to social interactions, deadlines, etc

- That you *can*, if you just want to