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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 think it's wrong to discredit self diagnosis for individuals such as my self who have suffered meltdowns their whole life and who have always shown traits and felt out of place because of it 

    Before knowing I could be autistic people always put my work life struggles etc down to anxiety being the cause not the effect 

    That frustration a lot of people my self included feel from finding it difficult to keep up with executive functions realising there is an explaining factor to this is such a relief 

    But it can also be a blow when you realise these struggles will never fully go away but it does allow your to adapt 

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  • I think it's wrong to discredit self diagnosis for individuals such as my self who have suffered meltdowns their whole life and who have always shown traits and felt out of place because of it 

    Before knowing I could be autistic people always put my work life struggles etc down to anxiety being the cause not the effect 

    That frustration a lot of people my self included feel from finding it difficult to keep up with executive functions realising there is an explaining factor to this is such a relief 

    But it can also be a blow when you realise these struggles will never fully go away but it does allow your to adapt 

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