#because 1) difficulty with self assessment and self recognition is definitely a symptom

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isn't it funny how a ton of professionally diagnosed autistic people diagnosed in adulthood say that they definitely knew they were autistic before they were diagnosed but there's still a fairly large group of autistic people diagnosed as children who cling to the disproven idea that "you can't possibly know that you're autistic because not knowing is one of the symptoms! I didn't know before I was diagnosed!" like yeah no shit that's because you were 10 years old