[ SECRET POST #6070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6070 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

I've done the self assessments and it's in my family, too. I've been thinking about getting diagnosed. My goal is to see if the ADHD/ADD meds would be more helpful than the anxiety meds I'm on. They help with the main stuff, but my executive function is so low it's limbo dancing in hell. My hesitation is that it's super hard for an adult woman to be taken seriously for this, and that's added a layer to the barriers when I already have can't-get-stuff-done disorder.

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

Self assessments don't count. You can self assess as anything if the suspicion is planted in your mind.

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for saying this. I have vented about this in counseling, and my counselor agrees that self assessment/diagnoses don't consider nearly enough factors in a person's life to actually be accurate. The self assessment bit strangely makes it difficult for me to even be in autistic spaces since I got a professional diagnosis at a young age, which for my peer group is rare enough to not be believed by many.

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

Especially since, what was it, ten years ago that "self diagnosed" was just code for "I am going to be a giant asshole to everybody and have no willingness to even try to change that", which forever poisoned the term and just made it harder for actual diagnosed folk.

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the classism.

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I admit I've found the classism argument for self diagnosis kind of strange given that my parents struggled to stay in the middle class when I was born, but I still got a diagnosis. (Admittedly, my parents were actually trying to keep me out of special ed because they didn't think I needed it, but the diagnosis effectively put an end to their fight.)

Re: Adults diagnosed with adhd or autism as an adult

[(Anonymous)]

I'm from the south. Not only were we poor, but it was obviously the devil. :(

Now that I'm an adult, I still don't have any money, no one who does payment plans is taking new patients, and I still have the uphill battle to be taken seriously because I'm a woman. See other below-anon's experience trying to be diagnosed as an adult woman. It's a whole hodgepodge of privilege that we don't have, but it's a non starter since I still don't have any goddamned money. So, yes, I'm going to self diagnose.

I find people trying to argue against self diagnosis weird. Like, what benefit do you think we're trying to scam?? Oh, yes, I'm in the scientifically confirmed weirdo group, don't you want to hang out with me now?? I can tell you everything you want to know about ancient roman legal codes! I'm great at parties. *eyeroll*