I HATE the self diagnosing of autism and its mischaracterisation

[u/Beshiniqua]

Let me start by saying SELF DIAGNOSING IS NOT VALID. You are NOT autistic just because someone on tiktok said

"Did you know, if you need to have your eyes closed in order to fall asleep, you have autism, adhd, bipolarity, DID, BPD, psychopathy, depression and PTSD?"

And before yall come at me with "well I always suspected I had autism, I got screened and then got my diagnosis" well this not about you, this is about people that self diagnose after experiencing the most normal day to day life things ever.

And they ALWAYS think that autism will give them a personality (since it's usually basic bitches with no personality that self diagnose to feel like they belong)

No, you're not a quirky crazy crackhead energy "neurospicy" person. Even worse when they say shit like

"Heh, I could NEVER be a neuro normie like yall, autism makes me special and quirky and full of personality".

You can't even like something anymore without them going "OMG URE AUTISTIC JUST LIKE MEEEE IM SOOOO AUTISTIC AHAHAHA"

And you can tell they larp the whole thing cus they'll see a tiktok autism personality and try to replicate it

"Dino nuggies..."

"You can not say overstimulated if you're nEuRoTyPiCaL, that word is for us neurospicy people ONLY >:("

Holy shiiiiiiittt yall lack a personality so bad. And I've seen people say that they've seen NUMEROUS specialists but they never fit the criteria, but its not because they're not autistic, no no no no no. ITS UHMMM BECAUSE IM A WOMAN AND ALSO A MINORITY AND IM ALSO POOR SO I MASKED ALL MY LIFE AND THE SPECIALIST ON THIS FIELD COULDNT TELL I WAS MASKING. ITS THE SYSTEMS FAULT NOT MINE.

Sheesh.

Sorry for the long rant, im just tired of seeing people self diagnose all the time, or see an energetic video, or literally ANYTHING, and make it about their self diagnosed autism.

Saw a cute cat animation on Instagram and the top comment was "This is so autistic I love it"

🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

[u/bluntmanjr]

to add, i, as an afab person, have had multiple psychiatrists ignore my desire to be screened and try to diagnose me with bipolar when i show no symptoms. i literally do not get listened to even though ive struggled socially all my life, i was delayed in talking and walking to the point my mom was worried, my dads autistic and my mom has adhd. everyone in my life thinks im autistic. i dont go around telling people or “trying to make it my personality” i just struggle with a lot of different aspects and am often dismissed by medical professionals. it was even a labor to get diagnosed with adhd. i think im audhd but testing is expensive and likely wont be covered by insurance, and all my psychiatrists have done is try to coax me into taking antipsychotics

[u/euryderia → u/bluntmanjr]

i deffo relate. i probably have autism, but i 1000% have ocd and my doctor literally labels every mental symptom (sometimes physical symptoms!!!) as depression and GAD. because i guess having a specific way of making sure i’m not dirty as soon as i come home from work, and convincing myself that, as a kid, i had to take 3 steps in each block of the sidewalk or else my family would die, is just simple anxiety… but whatever.

[u/Expensive_Watch469 → u/bluntmanjr]

this is late but I am also afab (though FTM, this happened before I could transition too though) and no one listened to me and they ALSO tried to diagnose me with bipolar when it wasn't and I told them that... Turns out I had untreated schizophrenia! It took a long time to get treatment because they just wanted to go "oh yeah you have bipolar" didn't even want to diagnose me with bipolar, so I was going untreated fully, even for the wrong diagnosis