If there was a way to cure Gender Dysphoria by fixing the brain,they'd be a huge backlash like fixing autism.

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[–]LyingSpirit472 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The same logic of that comes from the X-Men theory of "cure autism", though:

Storm, has cool weather powers and is worshipped in her homeland as a goddess for her power: "Mutants don't need to be cured."

Rogue, who's power is to kill anyone she touches: "...uh, actually I'd quite like to be cured, thank you."

Same story- it's never the people who have actual problems in life who hate the concept of curing themselves. It's always the people who either have very mild issues with the disability or, in all likeliness, know in their heart that they're faking it to be special.

[–]Caessium 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's the latter. A lot of people speaking for autistics don't have a diagnosis. They claim they don't need one because they did "extensive research" on the topic. The more insane ones claim that "it's not a disease, so medicine has nothing to do with it" or "no neurotypical specialist is competent to diagnose someone with autism." Others claim to have been misdiagnosed by incompetent doctors.

The least insane group is also the most insidious one. They claim that self-diagnosis should be valid because getting an actual diagnosis is expensive, and finding a specialist who does that is hard. Why do I consider them insidious? Because they frequently spread misinformation about the actual cost and availability of a professional diagnosis. The less actually diagnosed autistics, the more legitimacy a fake diagnosis gets.

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

Honestly it CAN be hard where I am. CAHMS is notoriously slow with some people having huge waiting times or getting caught in loops of who to talk to. But in those cases that I've known the parents usually mention something is wrong and they're on the waiting list. Which is usually enough for people to accept because it's a known thing how slow/difficult it can be. Though you also don't really get a referral to CAHMS unless it's bad.