I'm sorry fir sharing this. It's gonna be short. I have a roller coaster, I have my appointment dates for assessment, and once I feel happy about it, then anxious, then I feel that I regret that I have them, and feel like going to cancel it, but then I'm afraid of doing something I would regret later. I'm also afraid of getting autism diagnosis, I'm afraid I will regret having it. Then I'm afraid of being told I'm not autistic or being totally dismissed. Recently I saw a video of Uta Frith complaining about autism misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis. But then I concluded, that she should tale the responsibility and not complain about people getting the diagnosis and I also added that it's interesting that she is upset about people being misdiagnosed with autism (yes a false negative diagnosis is possible) but she seems to be oblivious to the fact that there are a lot of people misdiagnosed with other conditions. Nobody is upset about misdiagnosis in depression or bipolar, tourette etc. Many people, especially adults who get the late autism diagnosis were diagnosed/misdiagnosed with other conditions earlier.
So I have a lot of anxiety because I have no idea how it feels to have this diagnosis, I don't know how I will feel, if it helps me or not, I don't know what will happen next. Is there anyone who went through this?
