David
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Bachelor's in @Agroforestry 🌲 Agricultural expert // favorite quotes 😎 //house of knowledge 📚 // love God hate Evil 👿 // I'm @ManCity fans 🩵
No send money give woman oo 😂 Jesus didn’t do that shit bro ☹️
This Is Exactly Why So Many AUTISTIC PEOPLE SELF-DIAGNOSE. Person: I’m autistic. I don’t have an official diagnosis. Neurotypical person: You CAN’T do that!!! Only doctors can diagnose autism!!! Okay but… - Most doctors only learned what autism looks like in one group: nonverbal, white, little boys. - Most doctors still recommend therapies that a lot of autistic people have called traumatic. - Most doctors who do diagnose autism won’t even take adult patients. - If you’re a teenager and want an evaluation, you need parents who believe autism isn’t a tragedy and who understand it looks different for everyone. - If you’re an adult in the US, an eval costs thousands and insurance usually won’t touch it. In places like France it’s basically impossible to get. - And having an official diagnosis on paper can be used against you. People have lost custody. People have been institutionalized because of it. Meanwhile, AUTISTIC-LED organizations like ASAN, AWN, AANE actually say this: "Getting diagnosed is a personal choice. You don’t need a paper to be one of us. If you relate, you’re welcome here." A sincere self-diagnosis doesn’t hurt anyone. Even if you’re wrong, the worst case is you learned more about yourself. Best case? You find community, you understand yourself, you stop feeling broken. For so many of us, that’s where self-acceptance starts. The problem isn’t people "faking it." The problem is the system made getting help impossible, expensive, and sometimes dangerous. Self-diagnosis isn’t the finish line. But for a lot of us, it’s the only door that was open.
