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Chapter 8

  • Finding and creating autistic community
  • What is autistic community?
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  • Who is left out?
  • 1: Society has wrong ideas about who can be autistic.
  • 2: Some groups leave out people who don’t have a diagnosis.
  • 3: Some groups aren’t accessible.
  • 4: Some autistic people think they’re better than other autistic people.
  • 5. Autistic people can discriminate too!
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2: Some groups leave out people who don’t have a diagnosis.

Not all autistic people have a diagnosisWhen a doctor says you are autistic..
Remember, it can be hard to get a diagnosis.
Also, some people don’t want a diagnosis.
Some groups ban people who don’t have a diagnosis.
Those groups leave a lot of people out.

← 1: Society has wrong ideas about who can be autistic.
3: Some groups aren’t accessible. →
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