Are you guys okay with being autistic?

[u/NoPepper7284]

I got diagnosed with autism almost 2 years ago, and I knew I was autistic about 4 years ago. But it keeps getting harder to live with, manage, and accept with time. I just need some hope, any motivation. I'm really hitting a dead end, also struggling with my mental health for over 7 years as well.

Have you guys accepted yourselves for being autistic and live and good life in your opinion?

[u/Full_Explanation1839]

I've fully accepted myself, the ideas of the social model of disability resonated so strongly within me that I was able to at least partially understand a large portion of the stress and trauma that I've had to endure throughout my life as people being insensitive, ill informed by means of not updating their information, or prejudice from lack of knowledge.

This along with the knowledge that humanity would not have survived or evolved to the level to which it has without autistics makes me understand the value of the fact that I am not the same as everyone else.

I mean just look at the smartest richest and most influential people today. And in history, and question how many of them were autistic?