Hi everyone. Can I just add my voice to this - the #ActuallyAutistic hash tag was created for autistic people to use to help them find one another and build the community.

Non-autistic people using it need to listen to this - don't shout us down for being protective of it.

If you're a non-autistic parent of an autistic child, please use #AskAutistics. Think of a hashtag as more important than perhaps do do right now - they create a virtual safe space, an area of retreat and safety. Please do not dismiss this as being unreasonable.

It's like, we have this one nice thing and then just get a load of grief for trying to maintain it from people who, best will in the world, come across as terrifyingly entitled and unempathetic.

I don't think there's any will to ostracise non-autistic parents at all, certainly not from me, and us protecting our hashtag should not (I say this *very* strongly) be misinterpreted as this.