Same. An official diagnosis gets me literally nothing except being on a list. I’m not in America but I am in the Anglosphere, so I’m being careful. Maybe when I was a kid, it’d have helped with accommodations, but not anymore.
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Same here, as validating as a diagnosis would be there’s no way I’ll pursue one in this political climate. I’ll stick with my self-diagnosis and saying “I’m probably autistic”
I was scheduling appointments to get an “official” diagnosis when Trump started doing Trump stuff. It was the same week as one of his first big speeches. I came to a full stop.
And this is why i stopped seeking an autism diagnosis. I don’t want to be added to a yet another list of undesirables to be purged at a later date.
Same. An official diagnosis gets me literally nothing except being on a list. I’m not in America but I am in the Anglosphere, so I’m being careful. Maybe when I was a kid, it’d have helped with accommodations, but not anymore.
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Same here, as validating as a diagnosis would be there’s no way I’ll pursue one in this political climate. I’ll stick with my self-diagnosis and saying “I’m probably autistic”
I was scheduling appointments to get an “official” diagnosis when Trump started doing Trump stuff. It was the same week as one of his first big speeches. I came to a full stop.
also no accommodations would be opened up for me so why bother finding out