asdpositivity:

Today my mom told me that the way I stimmed embarrassed her because she said it “made me look autistic” but uh, I am autistic.

She prohibits me from discussing my diagnosis with anyone (I ignore this - I’m really open about my diagnosis at school and online) and not even my extended family knows. The one time that I brought it up, she told my family that I was lying.

Don’t teach your kids to be ashamed of their autism, or any other disability/disorder/illness that they may have. Trying to suppress it doesn’t make it go away. Trying to suppress it only hurts even more.

Once you help your kids know themselves and embrace themselves and all of their differences, you will help their world become a better place.

Please don’t teach your kids to be ashamed of their diagnosis. You can’t hide a part of them from the world for forever