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1:39am July 26, 2014

Anonymous asked: I'll apologize for my assumption about you being self-dx because from my experience, people who rant about how self-dx is legitimate are often self diagnosed themselves. Even so, I still believe that self-dx does nothing for you. You can't get professional treatment if you're self-dx. Other than bragging rights on the internet, the only thing you can do with a self-dx is ask a doctor to make sure you really have it so you can be treated.

autisticstevonnie:

self dx doesn’t get you bragging rights on the internet it gets you ridicule look the fuck around you

and gee don’t you think that if they can’t get to a doctor in the first place they’re not gonna be able to get treatment anyway

and in that case what would you suggest that they do then

do you have a solution for all the people without access to medical care because i would love to hear it

I was medically diagnosed, but:  Self-diagnosis isn’t for bragging rights, it’s for finding a community of people who understand you, it’s for learning strategies from other autistic people that you couldn’t figure out on your own, it’s for understanding yourself and how your mind works better, it’s for a lot of things, but bragging rights ain’t one of them.  Especially with the number of people who see it as their job to crap on self-dxed people who haven’t done a single bit of harm to anyone (which is most self-dxed people, just like most medically-dxed people).

#self dx  #ask  #anon  #actuallyautistic  #callmeoutis 

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