Why many autistic people focus on that?

[Neonatal RRT]

All of this is highly nuanced

When you spend your whole life feeling misunderstood, marginalized and as target practice for NT bullies, some autistic people feel the need to explain who they are up front, I guess

This is my personal situation. Take the fuel out of their fire. I'm not going to put up with any of your crap. I'm not your target.

In the US, we have a Gay Pride month, a Black History month... marginalized people taking back their identity with pride in some attempt to diminish the discrimination and attitudes of the past.

On the other hand, "pride" can also be one of the faces of an egotistical personality... someone you don't want to be around. There are egotistical autistic personalities that can come off as "the victim", "the justice warrior", "the I'm right and I will scream at you if you don't agree with me", "the overbearingly sensitive to every little perceived slight", "the people you are walking on eggshells around"... the type of people that are just miserable to be around.

There are ways to stand up for yourself and identity without being a jerk and causing further emotional chaos and distress.

 

[Aspychata]

This is a very mixed question for me. l can participate with others somewhat anonymously and feel at home with sensory overload, stims, alexithymia issues, masking, repetitive thoughts, or black and white thinking, observing patterns daily about everything, and so on. Sorry if l took this response out of context because this feels like a tribe perhaps?