andromedalogic:

thebluedream:

paisleytie:

Reactions to those who have self-diagnosed:

• “But you don’t really have depression! You’re just sad!”

(snipped)

Hmm, to a point, but I often find the experiences of self-diagnosed Autistics to be vaaaastly different from my own. They…

I guess I didn’t see the original post as saying the experiences are exactly the same - but just saying that there are people will say “oh you don’t REALLY have depression,” “oh you’re not REALLY autistic” whether one has a diagnosis or not.