uh actually this is a personal preference there is entire studies about it

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I agree with this idea wholeheartedly but I also can’t escape the fact that saying “I have the trans and/or the gay” is very funny to me😭

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is it ok that i prefer to just tell people i have autism rather than i am autistic? i feel like they are more understanding when i say i have autism rather than i am autistic

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idk I think policing the self-referring language preferences of people who fit diagnostic criteria that includes social difficulties is maybe not the hill to die on

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I am autism

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no i have gay, too

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You aren’t adhd tho idk. You aren’t anxiety. You aren’t Down syndrome. Why’s it just that one

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no actually, i *am* nothing. every single thing that you might call part of my identity is actually just a trait that i *have*. theres nothing fundamental underneath

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why is everybody upset? i took this as, u shouldn't feel like ur ill or something is wrong w u it's just part of who u are, which for me was a very helpful perspective

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I’m a semantics person and I’m with you on this, although I know people just do what’s simple. By nature, telling people that I “have” autism implies that the autism is with me but not a part of me, or it implies that I received it at some point in life. However, we do use the “I have” terminology when it comes to things like cancers or chronic illness too and there’s not much else to describe that either. I have POTS and autism, myself, but only of the two is in every part of my identity.

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wish this could be done with all disorders

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