I’m asking because I’m suspicious I might have autism but I cannot access a psychiatrist.
If I do self diagnose and no matter how much evidence I find that I have autism at the end of the day I don’t know that for a fact.
So if I go around claiming I’m autistic when I don’t even know for a fact I am, it feels extremely disrespectful to people with autism right?
It’ll be even worse if I do get access to a psychiatrist and they tell me no I’m not and I’m just weird or something.
EDIT: I don’t want to reply to everyone one by one but I do wanna say thank you for everyone’s kind and helpful answers. I appreciate it.
If you are in America it’s probably best not to get formally diagnosed right now IMHO. This might be alarmist but I think we might be doing eugenics again soon so YMMV.
Yes… “Alarmist”. Given the concentration camps and rumored database of neurodivergents, I think this (not getting formally diagnosed)is more proactive than alarmist