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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.

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  • I suspect that, like myself, the majority of late diagnosed adults came to the conclusion that they were autistic, or had a fairly accurate feeling that they were autistic, before seeking a diagnosis. It seems reasonable for self-diagnosed autistic people to say that they are convinced that they are autistic, but a bald statement with no qualification of, "I am autistic," feels too assertive. Autism is a condition with diagnostic criteria and I think that certainty demands a clinical diagnosis. I have nothing against people saying that they are autistic but undiagnosed, as long as they make that distinction.

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  • I suspect that, like myself, the majority of late diagnosed adults came to the conclusion that they were autistic, or had a fairly accurate feeling that they were autistic, before seeking a diagnosis. It seems reasonable for self-diagnosed autistic people to say that they are convinced that they are autistic, but a bald statement with no qualification of, "I am autistic," feels too assertive. Autism is a condition with diagnostic criteria and I think that certainty demands a clinical diagnosis. I have nothing against people saying that they are autistic but undiagnosed, as long as they make that distinction.

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