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Also I hope people in here are decent about plurals. r/fakedisordercringe is another one of the “be normal ” instances
hey comrades, remember self diagnosis is valid. not everyone has years to wait and thousands of dollars to spend on a something that may not improve your life in anyway. there are some states in america where your parents can take your kids away and the state will do it just because you have a diagnosis. Also good luck ever winning sole custody of your kids. And you can get rejected from moving to many countries like new zealand. Not to mention my poc and afab (edit: so the majority of the population) comrades are far far far less likely to be diagnosed properly. diagnoses for adults sometimes just means society gives itself permission to dehumanize you more.
I am self-diagnosed bc if I have a single mental illness, I will not get hormones and DIY might be criminalized as well, either it is or it will be soon, idk rn. , folks
yes such a good point!!! especially since its an increasing “concern” by terfs to “protect autistic people from trans ideology”. trans comrades dont need another reason to be invalidated.
I have OSDD (probably), which makes it so easy to invalidate my gender stuff
Hang on I didn’t know about this and i’m in europe, can you explain what this means? Is having a diagnosed mental illness a justification for refusing access to hormones?
Depends, my country has you at the mercy of wacky therapists and they often use stuff like depression to gatekeep you
Are you really trans? Or is your “dysphoria” just being depressed? Is the kind of thing gatekeeping therapist can throw at you
Self diagnosis is valid but also a bunch of people aren’t actually self-diagnosing they’re just using it to be edgy.
They used to say “as an r-slur” but when that became unacceptable they switched to autistic. A lot of the people saying this stuff don’t actually genuinely think they’re autistic, they’re just assholes.
Which is a problem because our autistic friends struggle to recognise it. And they’re a vulnerable group for grooming.
Which is a problem because our autistic friends struggle to recognise it. And they’re a vulnerable group for grooming.
what do you mean by this exactly and how should the issue be adressed, then, in your opinion?
It’s similar to the vulnerability that young eggs (trans people that haven’t realised it yet) have to grooming by the far right.
They give them attention in a certain set of specific ways and then pipeline them into right wing online spaces and behaviours through various targeted grooming methods. I use the word grooming here because it’s specifically the young teens that are most vulnerable to it and the main core of the people targeted.
I don’t know how the issue should be addressed. I’m just highlighting it as an issue. We do need to avoid invalidating self-diagnosis autism but also need to counter the shitheads.
i agree with everything you said, please read this in a friendly and confused tone. i dont see how that contrast with my original statement. My goal was to make self diagnosed comrades who were feeling insecure from assholes in the post above feel better. the fake disorder crigne sub is harmful imo. there are definitely the keffels of the world and tic tok teens and those people suck but do not invalidate actual autistic individuals self diagnosis.
Which is a problem because our autistic friends struggle to recognise it. And they’re a vulnerable group for grooming.
hahaha oh trust me I know. I have been left feeling tricked and hurt quite a few times, I still always believe my comrades unless I have reason not to.
i dont see how that contrast with my original statement.
I’m not disagreeing with you. Just adding that there’s an issue here in that we do need to find a way to counter the assholes somehow while also not invalidating our autistic friends.
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