And everyone has to pee but if you have to do it 40 times a day you should have that looked at 🙄

So much this!

And don’t you dare tell a vegan you can’t drink anything with plant milk!

Let me put it this way. I’ve been with my husband for 20 years now and back then we both thought we were NT. By now we both know we’re not 😂

And part of my comment explained why this is not always an option.

You keep assuming that people don’t use their self diagnosis as a springboard to work on themselves and finally having the right tools to do so. A lot of people don’t use their self diagnosis to feel special, it’s an explanation to them for why they are the way they are and how to help themselves.

A lot of us self diagnosed people are part of the lost generation mentioned in one of the papers above. When I was a child, autism without a learning disability wasn’t even recognized. It just didn’t exist and I had to cope until I went into burnout several times. It took until I found a young therapist to even learn that my problems might be caused by autism. My GP still is of the opinion I couldn’t be autistic because I can look into his eyes.

(And for what it’s worth, I’m not officially diagnosed because in my city of close to 2mil people there are exactly two places that diagnose adults and only one of them has experience diagnosing women.)

Yeah, it is. Reading it helped me a lot on my journey.

You mean people like Dr Devon Price?

“I want autistic people to experience less shame of who they are and to learn how to take off the masks that have trapped us for decades. The first step towards that includes accepting who you are. You don’t need a piece of paper from an assessor to do that.”

(Unmasking autism)

The pink ones are kinda translucent and barely visible for me. I don’t mind people seeing them so I might have a few different colors to match my outfit but in professional settings I usually wear the pink ones.

Personally, I wear noise cancelling headphones and listen to audiobooks but not music while shopping when I go alone.

When I go shopping with my husband I always wear my Loop engage. They come in several colors and there’s a pink version that (for me) is almost invisible. I can still hold a conversation and hear people talking to me but it’s way less noisy.

Spinach feta quiche or Käsespätzle (a special kind of pasta, fried with onions and cheese). Some days I need a chicken nugget burger from Burger King. There’s just something about that soft burger bun with just slightly crispy chicken nuggets that I crave sometimes.

Comfort food is a lot more about texture than taste to me.

Thank you! I don’t really wish to be someone else. I just spent the first 20 years of my life being told and thinking I was stupid, lazy and incapable of making friends. The next 20 years were spent masking extremely well and passing for “normal”, except for those total breakdowns every couple of years when I couldn’t really eat, sleep or communicate for a few weeks. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, PTSD etc. but the meds and therapy didn’t really help that much. Finally I got a new therapist, a young one, fresh from uni and full of new information and ideas and after reading my file she made me take tests for ADHD and autism. Both were pretty conclusive but she’s not licensed to diagnose it. I got diagnosed with ADHD almost two years ago and got meds and better help but there’s still a lot of grief for all the years that could have been better and that’s what makes me wish to be different sometimes.

He’s quite old and almost deaf so it bothered him a lot less 😂

It’s a definitely agree for me. We had to change some smart light bulbs because they omitted a very high pitched sound that nobody but me could hear. Also had to change our dog walk route because in one of the houses on our old route they bought one of those machines to keep animals away and I almost cried when we passed it. Also can hear phones ring in cars passing our house.

It might be a question of priority, like do you need an official diagnosis to get accommodations at school/work or do you “just” want to know for sure.

Also, it’ll make you think about why you’re requesting the assessment and in what way it’ll change your life. Like, in my case having an official diagnosis wouldn’t change anything, therapy options are designed to make a person useful for the workforce, I am a housewife so it wouldn’t help me much. So I’d rather have them use their service for people who actually have a need for their service.

Well, even under this topic people compare people who self diagnose with people who are antivaxxers.

Otherwise here are two links. The others have already been deleted because you’re doing a really good job here

Here’s one

And here’s another

It’s reality for a lot of autistic people. Is it bad to point that out?

The video actually proposes self diagnosis to be accepted as a step of medical diagnosis. It’s not anti-science at all, it criticizes the current situation regarding medical diagnosis.

Because most people use scientifically proven tests to determine whether or not they are autistic? The ones that are actually used during diagnosis by a doctor as well.

I’ve been told it’s to get attention. I don’t personally see it because as said in the video you either get attacked for being autistic or get attacked for being self diagnosed but apparently there’s positive attention as well.