Self-diagnosis and rejection sensitive dysphoria

Are you Russian and unable to get a diagnosis?

yes. 

I am cautious as there have been many attempts to scam vulnerable people online from anonymous posters from Russia. I'm curious how are you able to access this forum when Russia has laws and regulations to control access to the World Wide Web. Citizens are fined for using search engines which allow Russian citizens access to Western websites. If in Russia it is impossible to get a formal autism diagnosis as an adult then is it not the case that this kind of online content would be banned?

I am cautious as there have been many attempts to scam vulnerable people online from anonymous posters from Russia. I'm curious how are you able to access this forum when Russia has laws and regulations to control access to the World Wide Web. Citizens are fined for using search engines which allow Russian citizens access to Western websites. If in Russia it is impossible to get a formal autism diagnosis as an adult then is it not the case that this kind of online content would be banned?

That's good to hear. I have read information to the contrary on various websites, including the New York Times, Tech, Time, and Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/18/russia-growing-internet-isolation-control-censorship).  Human Rights Watch have been warning of Russia's escalating pressure on social media platforms to censor content they deem illegal. I read that people are fined for using VPNs or even accessing sites that propose them.

Wow, where did you get such information? It's just not true. People can be politically oppressed for being hosts of some kind of resources (like LGBTQ websites or channels of political opposition). But regular people can access them safely. Even if sites are banned, people will access them through VPN anyway, so that's simply useless. Russia isn't a cybermonster, lol. It's merely a sad place.