In my certification course Inderbitzen was advocating for polyvagal model, opining that he was not diagnosable currently, though he had been diagnosed with [ASD level 1] as a young adult. I believe he said ASD is state specific, rather than being a permanent, lifelong condition. (There was also an address by Dr. Porges who didn’t go as hard on the state specific argument, just that polyvagal model can be helpful, though a lot of people in the Q&A seemd to think he was saying polyvagal model was a cure. This is probably why Dr. Porges’ wikipedia page is such a no man’s land.)
Inderbitzen quoted a meme about our society produces no non-traumatized autistic people. This argues that the state of having diagnosable autism comes from a kernel of difference in society.
But maybe he was actually critiquing the ADOS2. He called it the gold standard, so that doesn’t seem like he what he meant to do.
When I say I don’t know if I have autism, I mean that I don’t know if I fall in the 15th %ile of the most autistic people. I’ve definitely had my moments. I’ve been assembling a list of them. But I don’t know how many of those may have occurred in a premenstrual exacerbation state. I know a lot occurred in what would prove to be menopause.
Neurodivergent Menopause 
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