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[–]Tovasshi 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You can say you suspect you're autistic. But you can't self-dx.

If people self diagnosed any other condition they'd be rightfully shamed for being ableist and co-opting the disorder. But somehow we're all knowledgeable, insightful enough to be able to diagnose ourselves with this one specific disorder? Yea no.

Allowing self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria is how we got into this whole fucking trans disaster in the first place... and now we want to view self-DXing of ASD as valid too? Fuck no.

Lack of resources isn't a excuse to claim you have something with validity.

[–]Lyssa 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I can say about myself whatever I wan't. And you're free to contradict me. Don't worry, I won't claim that you are "literally killing me" or something equally pathetic.

And yes, everybody can tell if he or she is dysphoric or not. What other standard should there be for "my body is bothering me very much and I am depressed/anxious because of it"? Do you want to diagnose dysphoria by x-ray or laproscopy? How dysphoria originates and how it should be treated, specifically if transition should be the standard protocol or very last ressort, that's up for debate. The experience of dysphoria is not.

Btw: Self-dox is important/legitimate for quite a few conditions, disorders and illnesses. I happen to have gotten an early diagnosis for endometriosis because a surgeon found it "passing by" before I even had symptoms. I would not have been less of an endo patient if I would have been made to suffer through the usual 7 years of waiting time for a proper diagnosis before receiving the all important slip of paper. Many endo patient dox themselves months and years before their official diagnosis.

No, I would not recommend self dox for brain tumors. But to say that there are only self doxed autistics and nobody would do that with anything else is quite simply incorrect.

[–]Tovasshi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Or is it just a "feeling" that you just "know" deep down that you're autistic.

You resort to self-ID because resources and "doctors don't know anything" and "bias".

This is just the same TRA rhetoric repackaged for neurological disorders.

[–]Lyssa 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You resort to self-ID because resources and "doctors don't know anything" and "bias".

You lack basic reading comprehension.