If it is a correct diagnosis then this helps the person understand their condition and it can help them engage with the psychologists in working out strategies to overcome the difficulties that the condition brings.
Having a label can lead some people to think that their situation is hopeless as they think that they have a permanent condition that will always drag them back down.
You can keep a diagnosis confidential and not tell all and sundry about it.
ASD also affects different people differently. I got through school, uni and most of my life without a label. Some people have many more problems, earlier on and it isn't possible to generalise about what the best thing for someone without knowing the individual. I would have benefited from understanding the condition but I can also see that a label might have been difficult to handle for me. At this point, the diagnosis has transformed my life and I am much happier and at ease with the world now that I understand that I am different to other people. I think that many interesting, eccentric, exceptional people have been classified as being on the spectrum so I don't see anything to be ashamed of in the "disorder".
If it is a correct diagnosis then this helps the person understand their condition and it can help them engage with the psychologists in working out strategies to overcome the difficulties that the condition brings.
Having a label can lead some people to think that their situation is hopeless as they think that they have a permanent condition that will always drag them back down.
You can keep a diagnosis confidential and not tell all and sundry about it.
ASD also affects different people differently. I got through school, uni and most of my life without a label. Some people have many more problems, earlier on and it isn't possible to generalise about what the best thing for someone without knowing the individual. I would have benefited from understanding the condition but I can also see that a label might have been difficult to handle for me. At this point, the diagnosis has transformed my life and I am much happier and at ease with the world now that I understand that I am different to other people. I think that many interesting, eccentric, exceptional people have been classified as being on the spectrum so I don't see anything to be ashamed of in the "disorder".
