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I feel like this phrasing is questionable lol
I'm sorry. I just have a bad way of expressing myself sometimes. I understand myself as an autistic less than most people here.
Include "person" and it sounds much better because it is more humanizing. Like "autistic person" rather than "autist" or "autistic." Works with other descriptors too.
Speak for yourself only, please. It's s fine if you prefer autistic person, but I and many autistics I know don't. The bottom line is not to teach someone what' s best but to inform them that there may be preferences and to listen to the reason there talking to, not to make blanket statements about what's the right thing.