There’s a reason so many of us hear, “you don’t look autistic,” when we tell people that we are.

And it’s actually really nicely explained in the DSM, which is the manual used by diagnosticians when diagnosing autism.

And I’m going to show you what it says in the DSM that explains this...

“I was trying to pursue an autism diagnosis, but the practitioner told me I can’t be autistic because I’m able to give eye contact”

I hear this a lot, and it frustrates me because not only is it untrue that autistic people can’t give eye contact… if a practitioner is saying this, it’s a major red flag…