A parent-of dismissed what I was saying about how ABA does harm, cos his kid "is /really/ autistic." He dismissed that I was actually autistic. Excuse me, but I didn't live a nightmare for 38 years, and go thru 3 weeks of mental and emotional hell to end up diagnosed ASD, for some random nobody to dismiss my very real autisticness, because what I said didn't fit his allistic narrative, and he thinks he's living by proxy just cos his kid is one.

I was so livid I wanted to cold cock the POS.