Today I saw a really constructive online conversation between autistic people and parents of autistic kids, discussing eloping and wandering and how best to keep autistic kids safe, get totally derailed by someone barging in going 'EXCUSE ME, YOU MEAN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM' 🙃
Throughout the conversation, people had been using both person first and identity first language, with no one commenting on what anyone else was using because it wasn't relevant to the (important) conversation, until this person decided to barge and interrupt with their demands.
@QueerlyAutistic WAIT. Please elaborate on that🥺🥺 I have a son whom i think is undiagnosed autistic and i am recently dx ADHD and self-dx autistic... my kiddo has no sense of danger/fear and keeps running off further and further from me...! where was/is that conversation happening online?