having had a later in life diagnosis of autism myself in 2021 (no help and support out there for autistic adults) I was looking for something else on Google and I started to find a lot of articles suggesting that not only autistic people are pretending to be autistic, faking their symptoms and that in others mental health and hidden disability issues are fake, created by big pharma, indeed this idea of fake autism diagnosis has been said to me online and I’ve often wondered was and why I was pushed into a later in life autism diagnosis (I know that “masking” is a thing, for obvious reasons) when there is no support for autistic adults against the backdrop of society’s effective refusal to understand these issues and provide the proper funding and support - it’s as bad as the idea of “over-diagnosis” and other myths and stereotypes about autism - rather than activism for better support, the suggestions made seem to be along the lines of taking a more “pragmatic” approach in accepting a certain version of a perceived reality and comparing it to the history and growth of a country like Singapore - frankly, I found the whole thing bizarre and I’m wondering what people think?
