I’m not autistic as far as I know. Though seeing how deeply such posts resonate with me every time I read them I… Am not sure what is going on.
I always see this as a suggestion but when I researched it, it landed on a few issues if you’re over 18yo.
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Professionals struggle to diagnose adults because if we got this far, we’ve learned a lot of coping/masking mechanisms that can hide issues
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Professionals are often trained on autism data for children, where they can quickly pick out signs. Diagnosing adults requires significantly more study time, and using data for children.
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The cost for these are not covered by most insurance, and the fees can range a couple thousand of dollars.
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Confirmed diagnosis only verifies if you are on the spectrum. But it also adds it to your health records, which may be used against you (as we’ve seen governments do).
This is all information from Autism Speaks and a few other resources.
I’m not for or against. I’m pointing out the discoveries I saw when I explored it.
I just hate how neurotypicals will often make decisions that make their lives harder or worse when they had better choices, and then get mad when I refuse to accept the same terms. It’s like yeah, things are shitty for YOU because YOU made those choices because YOU thought the pros outweighed the cons. That doesn’t make me a worthless piece of shit for saying no.
i.e. salaried coworker choosing to work 6 days a week “because there’s no other choice/way to get everything done”, getting mad when I refuse to also work the same 56 hours a week and being like “Well I DO it all the time, why cant you?”.
Bitch. If there is even a remote chance that I will have to work a 6th day due to not getting things done, I’ll get my shit done by any means necessary and work longer days 5 days a week if its going to come to that. But I need my 2 fucking days off.
At best this is just neurotypical quirkiness, at worst it’s organized bullying. I think its usually a mixture of both depending on the situation.
I put a lot of effort into making sure no one understands how much of an agoraphobe I am
I don’t know how much of it has to do with being on the spectrum and how much of it has to do with people just being extremely judgy but a lot of things are tucked away until someone gets to know us. It also doesn’t at all help that in our experience, people have used information against us to get us in trouble.
As a result, we don’t discuss hobbies, even “normal” ones. Can’t talk about drawing because we’re furries and people are still weird about that. Can’t talk about hiking or nature stuff because it would lead to discussions of naturism/nudism which again, people are still weird about. Aside from hobbies, discussing being plural and trans is completely off the table unless we’re 1000% sure the other party isn’t going to be an asshole about it. - Phoebe (it/its)
What do I need to hide about myself?
