Associating self-esteem with being neurodivergent

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Do many autistic self-advocates, writers, bloggers tend to promote attitude involving making own self-esteem highly dependent on the fact whether someone has diagnosed autism (or in general is neuroatypical) or not? What's the rational reason behind that behavior if it's right observation? Are calendar events like autism pride day a consequences of this?

That depends, really, of how one takes it.
Maybe it can depend on where their "phases" are.

I think those phases are particularly late diagnosed whose narratives are particularly unpleasant without the ND label and instead when perceived as an NT with all the mismatched standards and all.

Because getting diagnosed on those cases involved that their personal narratives be "I have a medical condition" to "I'm built different" and ultimately "it's not my fault -- I have autism/adhd/ld/etc." instead of "I'm a very flawed and broken person" or "I'm stupid, I'm dumb, I'm selfish, I'm weak" yadda yadda whatever foolish presumptions they kept hearing from adults as a child growing up, particularly when not diagnosed or when diagnosis is less accessible or less acceptable in whatever culture they grew up in.


To me, they're still processing the identity or label.
Kinda like phases no different than a mix of teenagers trying out what trend to try and fit in (akin to the processes of experiential phases, not their respective developmental maturity per se), to someone getting diagnosed with an untreated condition and whatever crappy habits they had were coping mechanisms.

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