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Do you think it is wrong for someone to say they are autistic when they aren't diagnosed?

Heather85

Do you think it is wrong for someone to say they are autistic when they aren't diagnosed?

I don't want to cause any arguments on here just wanted people's honest opinions because I am not diagnosed myself and not sure i want to go down the assessment route and feel at present that I would only be doing so for other people's benefit to prove I am and not my own.

Parents

  • Hi, 

    I don't think it's wrong at all.

    I spent 3-4 years before my diagnosis with an ever-growing conviction that I was autistic. The most important factor was that autism was the first thing I had found that explained all of my back story of 70+ years.
    Also, I started to say to my partner things like "do you think what I did/said just then was autistic?" 

    By the time of my autism assessment we were both reasonably sure I was autistic.    

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  • Hi, 

    I don't think it's wrong at all.

    I spent 3-4 years before my diagnosis with an ever-growing conviction that I was autistic. The most important factor was that autism was the first thing I had found that explained all of my back story of 70+ years.
    Also, I started to say to my partner things like "do you think what I did/said just then was autistic?" 

    By the time of my autism assessment we were both reasonably sure I was autistic.    

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