The driving video kind of upset me honestly. I’m autistic, not too much younger than Beckie and, if she actually is autistic, quite a similar level with a lot of similar traits, and I can’t drive. There’s a bunch of reasons for it, and they do tie back to me being autistic, and that video massively feels like a ‘woo look at me, I’m one of the smart, cool, able autistics!’ to me.
Sure, im probably taking it too personally, but I don’t really see what other reason there is to post something like that? I’m all for celebrating autistic people’s achievements, but she’s been driving for years, and though I don’t personally, lots of autistic and other neurodivergent people can drive just fine. I mean, we’re literally everywhere, there’s an autistic person flying a plane somewhere, but that’s obviously no where near as incredible as a privileged British woman driving a car