late diagnosed doesn’t equal low support needs…

a lot of women bipoc etc aren’t diagnosed with autism bc of the racism and misogyny prevalent in medicine, and a lot of people are forced to go without support as a result

some people are excellent students but would forget to feed themselves leave the house sleep etc without a person helping remind them

some people can take care of themselves but need more support with communicating

some people can communicate but have a hard time with school processing etc

from what ive observed, a lot of autistic people are really ‘good’ at some things and need a lot of help in other areas and i also relate to that and i think that’s also where the savant stereotype can come from?

a lot of the time the inconsistency in skills means it gets overlooked