Legitimacy ?

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Do those of a younger generation who were born when it was easier to get a dx of ASD/Dyspraxia/NVLD etc right in seeing themselves as more genuine cases than those who may well have those things but were born when it was harder to get recognition and a diagnosis and are thus undiagnosed?

Personally I don't think so . It is not the fault of the older generation that diagnosis/help and support was harder to come by. Nor that even under the current system it can be hard to get a late diagnosis.

I don't think so either but there are definitely some here that do.

I think these things become more obvious as one gets older, has more experience in life and realise how much the world can change during a lifetime.

It is a matter of a lot of people growing up now having no conception of why somebody would not be identified when they were young or how that it can be extremely difficult to get a professional diagnosis as a middle-aged person. I think compared to a few years ago younger WP members are more educated about this due to us and others talking about it.

It can work the other way also. For those of us who grew up when Autism diagnosis was rare and now see autism not only much more widely diagnosed but a lot of Autistic characters on TV in the movies etc., it is tempting to think Autism is overdiagnosed and that today's kids are snowflakes who do not appreciate how supposedly easy they have it.

Also this supposed prejudice/hostility by the officially diagnosed towards the self diagnosed on this site (or elsewhere in the autism world) seems to be mostly young folks vs other young folks. I never had the sense that young folks were distrusting of older folks on that issue. Its civil strife within the same younger generation mostly from I have seen.