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Benefits of a formal diagnosis?

Danjo

I am a 54 year old man and have done the ASQ and other online tests and have scored consistently in the autism ranges. A lot of my life experiences make more sense now - including extended bouts of anxiety and depression, insomnia, situational anxiety, introceptive confusion and others. I am wondering now about the benefits of a formal diagnosis. I’d welcome advice from others.

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  • Hello, it's been discussed here before. It is largely for personal knowledge and validation. There's no cure, so it is to help understand yourself and have 'permission' to change things.

    It can help when others don't take it seriously to have a confirmation. It also helps (a bit) with imposter syndrome.

    I got it because I was in burnout, had dysfunctional thinking and was an emotional mess, so had to know for sure what was going on, not least because I wanted to understand what had happened in the past.

    There was in the blog last week on embrace autism. It's a reasonable summary.

    embrace-autism.com/.../

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  • Hello, it's been discussed here before. It is largely for personal knowledge and validation. There's no cure, so it is to help understand yourself and have 'permission' to change things.

    It can help when others don't take it seriously to have a confirmation. It also helps (a bit) with imposter syndrome.

    I got it because I was in burnout, had dysfunctional thinking and was an emotional mess, so had to know for sure what was going on, not least because I wanted to understand what had happened in the past.

    There was in the blog last week on embrace autism. It's a reasonable summary.

    embrace-autism.com/.../

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