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Diagnosis; a useful step, or a way for society to label us?

JT

Days away from assessment, after over 2 years wait, and I'm really, really unsure whether to go ahead with it.

I have a career that has had its problems, and that I still struggle to work at the same rate as my colleagues before I am exhausted, but still, I fear this could be put in jeopardy if I get diagnosed as on the spectrum?

Can anyone convince me its the best thing to do? I've read many arguments fore and against, but the fact thst so many people on the spectrum struggle to be included by employers is ridiculous and something I feel I should avoid. A big part of me feels that society might use these labels to supress 'differences' in many ways, and so I think work is only one example where this could play out if I do go ahead?

I know I'm different from very socialble types who crave experiences that I find totally over stimulate my senses, and I know I'd rather be anywhere in the world than in the presence of a group of people socialising, but I also know this same mind gives me capacities for thinking creatively and in unique ways that make me who I am, so why would I want to draw a line round these and add a label that could be used as a negative?

Anxiety, depression and feeling isolated motivated

Confused

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  • a lot of good points here, and i can pretty much relate to most, if not all. 

    i'll add --- getting the diagnosis, guess what, you can be left in the lurch. such as: "yes, we've determined you have asd. goodbye and good luck. so nice knowing you"

    that's where i was. i had to scratch and claw through various therapists - but w the diagnosis, they had to change their approaches, even if only a little.  very different therapy for aspergers (yeah, i loosely use the terms asd and aspergers).  but it was still hard, until i got therapists who really deal with aspergers. then ----------- a couple of things slowly slowly starting to make a tiny bit of sense. and then my therapist brought up sensitivities, protecting oneself from sensitivites, discovering how they affect you, how you've become inured to them, even as they beat you up every single d*mn day. 

    additionally, the diagnosis for me opened up all these other cans of worms: learning disabilities, twice exceptional, every sensitivity known to man kind...............  and am looking into auditory processing and visual processing issues, plus somatic processing issues.  a positive aspect is now i have some people in my corner, specialists, resources.

    without the diagnosis, i suspect people may struggle identifying various issues that may affect them a lot, yet are unknown to them.

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  • a lot of good points here, and i can pretty much relate to most, if not all. 

    i'll add --- getting the diagnosis, guess what, you can be left in the lurch. such as: "yes, we've determined you have asd. goodbye and good luck. so nice knowing you"

    that's where i was. i had to scratch and claw through various therapists - but w the diagnosis, they had to change their approaches, even if only a little.  very different therapy for aspergers (yeah, i loosely use the terms asd and aspergers).  but it was still hard, until i got therapists who really deal with aspergers. then ----------- a couple of things slowly slowly starting to make a tiny bit of sense. and then my therapist brought up sensitivities, protecting oneself from sensitivites, discovering how they affect you, how you've become inured to them, even as they beat you up every single d*mn day. 

    additionally, the diagnosis for me opened up all these other cans of worms: learning disabilities, twice exceptional, every sensitivity known to man kind...............  and am looking into auditory processing and visual processing issues, plus somatic processing issues.  a positive aspect is now i have some people in my corner, specialists, resources.

    without the diagnosis, i suspect people may struggle identifying various issues that may affect them a lot, yet are unknown to them.

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