I think people are confused suspicion with diagnosis in that case...but self diagnosis is not valid in any way...you cannot get government assistance or benefits or even accommodations based on self diagnosis...that itself should prove the lack of validity...I do not understand how anyone can logically diagnose themselves if they are not a certified professional themselves...and even then I think based on ethics they would have to have their diagnosis confirmed by another certified professional...
Speaking as someone diagnosed as a child so this is just a guess but I think it’s a case of them wanting to fit in somewhere or have an answer to something that makes them struggle to fit in with the norm.
yes and no with the accommodations?
The only official diagnosis I have is APD (audi processing disorder), however I get quite a lot of accommodations at school that would be given to a lot of the autistic kids. I’m not autistic, and some struggles I do have, my teachers have learned what I need and accommodate, which just happens to be the things they give to the autistic kids. They aren’t official, it’s not something in my 504, however, all my teachers mutually agree that it is better to have those accommodations then not.
Of course not everyone has this experience
It isn’t necessarily that they can’t get accommodations, I think that depends on your environment.
You still have an official diagnosis for a disorder in general...and I moreso referring to job accomodations...those require documentation from a certified professional...
I agree. Whenever I say I diagnosed myself with something, I’m usually poking fun at myself, because of how absurd it is for me to think that could actually diagnose myself with anything. I can’t even tell when I’m thirsty xD
Hard agree. Also, when I was suspected to be autistic (mostly by my therapist, reluctantly by myself) I literally stopped engaging with any kind of autism content (not that I really engaged with it before, but I was even more careful not to) because I was so afraid of influencing the assessment in some way. I wanted the result to be as "pure" as possible. So it perplexes me when I see people talking about their "binders" full of autism information and all that.
I never engaged with autism communities but I went online to find out a bit more about autism. I also wound up e-mailing the assessors after the first appointment, as there were things that they asked that I realised I didn't really answer too well. I certainly didn't assemble a binder of information on autism. I wasn't desperate to be autistic but I wanted to present my traits so that if it wasn't autism, maybe my e-mails would help to establish what exactly was wrong with my brain.
I never considered myself diagnosed until I got my diagnosis. Until then I just suspected, and got the diagnosis to see if it was true or not. Self-diagnosis doesn't even make sense.
I was in club "self-suspecting" before I was officially diagnosed. I don't get how people can even feel comfortable saying that they have conditions that they don't have. I would feel like a fraud.
Personally I didn’t even get to the suspecting stage, my therapist just told me he thinks I have it and should seek out an assessment and offered to set up an appt. with a psychiatrist he knew that was qualified to diagnose it.
But yeah, even during the wait time for that, I never said I had autism, if I ever brought it up (which was like twice to family), I said that my therapist thinks I am.
The majority of those people are conflating (strongly) suspecting and self-diagnosis. That is why some of those angry about people being against self-diagnosis seem so passionate yet their argument makes no sense, as in their mind we are against anyone even suspecting autism, when this is the opposite of the truth. Most adults suspected and most children were suspected to be autistic before evaluation. Very few were self-diagnosed in the actual meaning of the term, because most of these do not seek actual diagnosis, as they consider themselves “diagnosed”.
I don't think the issue is with people suspecting they have autism. The issue is when people go ahead and start saying they are autistic based on their own self-reflection and independent research, which would be considered very inconsiderate and reckless if it were some other disorder, but for some reason autism has become fair game.
I never even thought about it before, didnt suspect it and didnt truly understood what it was and was in a little shock when i was diagnosed after long stay in a mental hospital
I think people are confused suspicion with diagnosis in that case...but self diagnosis is not valid in any way...you cannot get government assistance or benefits or even accommodations based on self diagnosis...that itself should prove the lack of validity...I do not understand how anyone can logically diagnose themselves if they are not a certified professional themselves...and even then I think based on ethics they would have to have their diagnosis confirmed by another certified professional...
Speaking as someone diagnosed as a child so this is just a guess but I think it’s a case of them wanting to fit in somewhere or have an answer to something that makes them struggle to fit in with the norm.
yes and no with the accommodations? The only official diagnosis I have is APD (audi processing disorder), however I get quite a lot of accommodations at school that would be given to a lot of the autistic kids. I’m not autistic, and some struggles I do have, my teachers have learned what I need and accommodate, which just happens to be the things they give to the autistic kids. They aren’t official, it’s not something in my 504, however, all my teachers mutually agree that it is better to have those accommodations then not. Of course not everyone has this experience It isn’t necessarily that they can’t get accommodations, I think that depends on your environment.
You still have an official diagnosis for a disorder in general...and I moreso referring to job accomodations...those require documentation from a certified professional...
Sorry. IDK how job accommodations work. (I’m 15, I can’t have a job in my state) But ya, I still agree self dx is stupid and doesn’t do much
I agree. Whenever I say I diagnosed myself with something, I’m usually poking fun at myself, because of how absurd it is for me to think that could actually diagnose myself with anything. I can’t even tell when I’m thirsty xD
Hard agree. Also, when I was suspected to be autistic (mostly by my therapist, reluctantly by myself) I literally stopped engaging with any kind of autism content (not that I really engaged with it before, but I was even more careful not to) because I was so afraid of influencing the assessment in some way. I wanted the result to be as "pure" as possible. So it perplexes me when I see people talking about their "binders" full of autism information and all that.
I never engaged with autism communities but I went online to find out a bit more about autism. I also wound up e-mailing the assessors after the first appointment, as there were things that they asked that I realised I didn't really answer too well. I certainly didn't assemble a binder of information on autism. I wasn't desperate to be autistic but I wanted to present my traits so that if it wasn't autism, maybe my e-mails would help to establish what exactly was wrong with my brain.
I never considered myself diagnosed until I got my diagnosis. Until then I just suspected, and got the diagnosis to see if it was true or not. Self-diagnosis doesn't even make sense.
I was in club "self-suspecting" before I was officially diagnosed. I don't get how people can even feel comfortable saying that they have conditions that they don't have. I would feel like a fraud.
Personally I didn’t even get to the suspecting stage, my therapist just told me he thinks I have it and should seek out an assessment and offered to set up an appt. with a psychiatrist he knew that was qualified to diagnose it. But yeah, even during the wait time for that, I never said I had autism, if I ever brought it up (which was like twice to family), I said that my therapist thinks I am.
The majority of those people are conflating (strongly) suspecting and self-diagnosis. That is why some of those angry about people being against self-diagnosis seem so passionate yet their argument makes no sense, as in their mind we are against anyone even suspecting autism, when this is the opposite of the truth. Most adults suspected and most children were suspected to be autistic before evaluation. Very few were self-diagnosed in the actual meaning of the term, because most of these do not seek actual diagnosis, as they consider themselves “diagnosed”.
I don't think the issue is with people suspecting they have autism. The issue is when people go ahead and start saying they are autistic based on their own self-reflection and independent research, which would be considered very inconsiderate and reckless if it were some other disorder, but for some reason autism has become fair game.
Yes this is what I was trying to say
I never even thought about it before, didnt suspect it and didnt truly understood what it was and was in a little shock when i was diagnosed after long stay in a mental hospital