diff --git a/packages/react/src/ReactElementProd.js b/packages/react/src/ReactElementProd.js
index 88b87a6dfb651..abefe9ad9ef7a 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/ReactElementProd.js
+++ b/packages/react/src/ReactElementProd.js
@@ -232,8 +232,14 @@ export function createElement(type, config, children) {
         hasOwnProperty.call(config, propName) &&
         // Skip over reserved prop names
         propName !== 'key' &&
-        // TODO: These will no longer be reserved in the next major
+        // TODO: `ref` will no longer be reserved in the next major
         propName !== 'ref' &&
+        // ...and maybe these, too, though we currently rely on them for
+        // warnings and debug information in dev. Need to decide if we're OK
+        // with dropping them. In the jsx() runtime it's not an issue because
+        // the data gets passed as separate arguments instead of props, but
+        // it would be nice to stop relying on them entirely so we can drop
+        // them from the internal Fiber field.
         propName !== '__self' &&
         propName !== '__source'
       ) {
diff --git a/packages/react/src/__tests__/ReactElementValidator-test.internal.js b/packages/react/src/__tests__/ReactElementValidator-test.internal.js
index cd1259de19c02..c32ddd3b3fcbd 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/__tests__/ReactElementValidator-test.internal.js
+++ b/packages/react/src/__tests__/ReactElementValidator-test.internal.js
@@ -569,4 +569,26 @@ describe('ReactElementValidator', () => {
     React.createElement(Lazy);
     expect(didCall).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it('__self and __source are treated as normal props', async () => {
+    // These used to be reserved props because the classic React.createElement
+    // runtime passed this data as props, whereas the jsxDEV() runtime passes
+    // them as separate arguments.
+    function Child({__self, __source}) {
+      return __self + __source;
+    }
+
+    const container = document.createElement('div');
+    const root = ReactDOMClient.createRoot(container);
+    // NOTE: The Babel transform treats the presence of these props as a syntax
+    // error but theoretically it doesn't have to. Using spread here to
+    // circumvent the syntax error and demonstrate that the runtime
+    // doesn't care.
+    const props = {
+      __self: 'Hello ',
+      __source: 'world!',
+    };
+    await act(() => root.render(<Child {...props} />));
+    expect(container.textContent).toBe('Hello world!');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/react/src/jsx/ReactJSXElement.js b/packages/react/src/jsx/ReactJSXElement.js
index 849d2e1604db0..fc741c7363093 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/jsx/ReactJSXElement.js
+++ b/packages/react/src/jsx/ReactJSXElement.js
@@ -239,10 +239,8 @@ export function jsx(type, config, maybeKey) {
       hasOwnProperty.call(config, propName) &&
       // Skip over reserved prop names
       propName !== 'key' &&
-      // TODO: These will no longer be reserved in the next major
-      propName !== 'ref' &&
-      propName !== '__self' &&
-      propName !== '__source'
+      // TODO: `ref` will no longer be reserved in the next major
+      propName !== 'ref'
     ) {
       props[propName] = config[propName];
     }