Queer, neurospicy, and stuck on endless waiting lists.

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361315576221" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Autistic people experience diagnostic overshadowing</a>. We’re not allowed to be anything else or have other conditions. Any illness, ailment, or difference is seen only in the context of being autistic. Unfortunately, this, alongside the high numbers of trans and gender variant people being autistic and/or having ADHD, is being used by the “gender critical” lobby to try and limit access to gender-affirming care. They often clutch at the old stereotypes of autism to make their point- sensory issues, rigid thinking, hyper fixation. They imply that trans identity is a trait of autism and is something to be treated or cured. To remind you, there is no cure or treatment for autism, nor should there be. These tropes also infantilize us; we are deemed not to know our minds and to be undeserving of bodily autonomy. The neurodivergence is something to be “dealt with” before we could consider a child to be trans. This is highly problematic. Autistic isn’t broken, just as trans isn’t broken. <a href="https://sarahtc.medium.com/queer-neurospicy-and-stuck-on-endless-waiting-lists-3dd4440942de">Click Here</a>