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Negative reaction to diagnosis

Good for you I guess

I posted a post similar to this in the introductions forum but didn’t get any replies so maybe it would help if I censored myself a little bit.

Basically, it has been a week today since I was diagnosed. I never sought out a diagnosis. I never wanted a diagnosis. I was surprised by it but my family and friends seemed to think it was quite obvious.

Firstly, I need to know is autism a medical condition? Is it a mental or physical health condition? I’m guessing it is a health condition as that is what being diagnosed with something means to me.

Why is it seen by many people as a good thing to be diagnosed with autism?

As I said before, being 'diagnosed with something’ is, to me, a bad thing. It means you are not normal at best; ill at worst.
If the only benefits of having an autism diagnosis are the same as the benefits of being diagnosed with any other disability, then I wish they would have just let me be because I already have other diagnoses.

To me, ‘autistic' is a negative label and I am having trouble coming to terms with it.

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  • Sorry to go on because I am just repeating myself but, as I said before, I am having real trouble with this.

    When I told people, they all reacted differently. My mum just said "well that explains a lot" and my sister was all lets have a party. Last night, my best friend tried to use it as an insult saying "you're autistic" and laughing but I ignored him.

     By the way, what is the correct term? I heard Aspergers is outdated now.

    I needed to know about the medical classification partly just for my own curiosity and partly because due to my epilepsy I find myself in hospital a lot and they always want to know what medical conditions I have.

    I never got obsessed about numbers and letters but I have thrown really big tantrums, sometimes in public, and then felt really stupid afterwards.

    So I can relate to a lot of what you are saying, and, yes, I probably do need more than a week.

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  • Sorry to go on because I am just repeating myself but, as I said before, I am having real trouble with this.

    When I told people, they all reacted differently. My mum just said "well that explains a lot" and my sister was all lets have a party. Last night, my best friend tried to use it as an insult saying "you're autistic" and laughing but I ignored him.

     By the way, what is the correct term? I heard Aspergers is outdated now.

    I needed to know about the medical classification partly just for my own curiosity and partly because due to my epilepsy I find myself in hospital a lot and they always want to know what medical conditions I have.

    I never got obsessed about numbers and letters but I have thrown really big tantrums, sometimes in public, and then felt really stupid afterwards.

    So I can relate to a lot of what you are saying, and, yes, I probably do need more than a week.

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