#anyone who is self diagnosed?

[snekatiemainy]

'disability fakers dni' ok bye

[raaorqtpbpdy]

I’ve never been particularly interested in self-insert fic, nor had any desire to write one (no judgement or anything, if you do, more power to you; it’s just not for me), but watching House MD as a disabled person who’s gone through six doctors and three years trying to get a diagnosis from people who are content to treat a symptom without ever investigating the underlying cause is filling me with a great desire to write a self-insert where House calls all my previous doctors morons and figures out in the span of a week what no one else has come close to in three years.

That would be very cathartic, I think. Only problem is I don’t actually know what I have and therefore what his conclusion would be, because all my doctors have been focused on treating one single symptom (to no effect) rather than figuring out what’s actually wrong.

[lacunazai]

the disorder faking in this generation is genuinely wild. like.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

all the robotniks have autism I think. it’s not even a genetic thing half of them are adopted they’re just all autistic

[deservedgrace]

they should invent a doctor that is competent and listens to patients

[pollen]

i've been diving a lot deeper into adhd symptoms and comorbidities and misdiagnoses and whenever i tell my boyfriend something i learned that sounds like me he responds with something like

[caffeinatedopossum]

I'm starting to feel like bpd is actually just what happens when there's an overlap between adhd, ptsd, and depression- which I think is much more common than physciatrists think

I have a lot of theories but also like I need to do way more research on this before assuming things because I know this is already a greatly stigmatized disorder and I don't want to erase anyone's experiences or make it worse.

[linabirb]

actually find it kinda insane how my 75 y/o grandma explained to me the plot of this show she was watching where the protagonist has autism and she was talking about it and she was like "she reminds me of you so much" and i was like "oh haha yeah um. well i don't know i could be autistic but i'm not sure" and she just looked at me and nodded and was like "yeah you could be"

meanwhile my mom literally said to my face "no you can't be autistic because you actually do talk to people and don't isolate yourself" BUT SHE'S THE ONE WHO'S MAKING ME TALK TO THEM AND NOT ISOLATE MYSELF 😭😭

[goofballproximitysurveyor]

you know i always think i don't have a problem with taking things literally bc i love symbolism and figurative language like in stories but then i remember the top thing that gets me in trouble/people annoyed with me at work is that i have a hard time following instructions correctly, for example the other day lead teacher asked me to "check the laundry" and i had to make it two trips because in the moment I didn't know whether she wanted me to cycle out the machines if they were done or not. Also the "pour the cross contaminated tomato sauce in the sink" incident but that was a bit more high stakes LOL.

[snaggletoothedbastard]

fun little autistic experiences that i have sometimes

in honour of finishing the autism assessment process and being told that I've basically confirmed everything they already knew :)

(disclaimer: not all of these are fun)

I want to make breakfast because I've been up for an hour and all I've eaten is medicine but I can't go in the kitchen because it smells of cat food

some dickhead just made fun of me and I'm so angry that I'm physically shaking but I'm in school and I can't have a meltdown so I'll just hit my legs really hard

I need to listen to Touch-Tone Telephone and jump around right now

strawberry-flavoured medicine has completely ruined the taste of strawberries for me

I don't know why I copied what you said I just did it automatically I'm so sorry

what do you mean you don't have a favourite word?? anyway mine is brackets

for the last time, I'm not angry, I'm just tired and have very little control over my face and voice

huh all my friends seem to really understand me and I actually have a lot in common with them ... oh wait they're autistic too aren't they

I accidentally left my weighted blanket at my grandparents' house and didn't realise until we got home and I am going to cry

I know what most of the Facial Expressions are supposed to mean when a neurotypical uses them but the thing is you are not using the Facial Expressions the way you have taught me they are meant to be used so I have no idea what you are feeling

screaming is fun actually

my shoes must be a full size too big because I need to be able to move my toes

brackets brackets brackets brackets brackets brackets br-

[hollowedskin]

Love the fucking reasoning of ableists.

Oh yeah do you go to the doctor because you're feeling great with no problems? No you go because you're having fucking symptoms and you think you have the flu by deductive reasoning, and want that either confirmed or denied (and correctly diagnosed) based on the information you give and the doctor being your official expert on questions about health.

Why is it suddenly different for neurodivergency? Nobody goes to a therapist because they have no issues and aren't being impacted in their lives. Fuck OFF.

a while ago i attended this lecture on autism. guy in the audience said he had many of the symptoms that were presented and asked what should he do to get treatment and possibly a diagnosis. instead of answering his question the psychologist went on a tangent about how “the clinic reigns all powerful over guesswork”, and how actually it has become a trend amongst little children on the internet to claim that they are autistic for cool points, and that this hurts real autistic people. no she didn’t tell him how to get his symptoms looked into, she just made it very clear that to her, aknowledging your own symptoms is bad and evil and hurts the poor real mentally ill people.

an ex-friend of mine, then a psychology major and by now probably a full psychologist, once lectured me on how horrible and bad it was that i told her “i probably have some sort of neurodivergency”, and that if i were her patient she would never give me a diagnosis because “you aren’t like this now, but i know that if you get a diagnosis you’ll use it as an excuse to start treating people badly. that’s just how mentally ill people are.”

same ex-friend was extremely disgusted when she found out that fans sometimes make neurodivergency headcanons for characters that have the same symptoms as they do, and that authors sometimes write books with neurodivergent protagonists in stories that don’t focus on that (ex: she seemed horrified that percy jackson has adhd?)

multiple psychologists i’ve seen on facebook agree that they should refuse to treat patients that say “i’m here because i have symptoms of a disorder and wonder if i have it”, and that a patient should arrive to a psychologist as a blank slate.

school psychologist asked me how i was feeling about my trauma situation and i told him i thought my friends would leave me. instead of addressing the issue he said that that no i didn’t, that i was lying, that i had searched “bpd symptoms” online and now i was faking symptoms because i wanted to have bpd, that he shouldn’t have told me he suspected i had a personality disorder because now look what was happening. no, i didn’t search bpd symptoms online. yes, my friends left me, it was a completely founded belief and not a symptom, let alone a faked symptom.

so the next time you hear someone saying they’re “anti self-diagnosis” i want you to understand what they’re saying. what they’re saying is:

- i don’t want people to be aware of their own symptoms

- i don’t think my patients should have access to any information that doesn’t come from me

- i don’t think neurodivergent people should learn how to cope with their symptoms and live “normal” lives

- i think neurodivergent people should be denied a diagnosis because the moment they get one they will become evil and dangerous

- i don’t think people who don’t look like a stereotype could possibly be neurodivergent, even if they have all the symptoms, so i think they are faking it for attention and should be denied treatment

[zoology]

[king-of-havoc]

Man, I'm too tired to spiral. I'm already in a depressive episode, I don't need to start worrying if I have some sort of OCD right now

[lesfruitsdores]

I don't understand the belief that we should listen to teenagers because they are so "enlightened". They're not smarter, they just feel no shame and believe they have it all figured out because they haven't been on this earth for enough time to know how little they know. They're dumb as shit and don't know more than the rest of us old hags. It's silly to me that every teenager with a twitter account thinks they are MLK or Rosa Parks.

[sistersorrow]

I think this partly stems form how Reddit just kinda doesn't like the idea of people being neurodivergent?

Like, in a lot of really big subreddits, if you talk about being nd, a lot of people by default will simply assume you're self-diagnosed and lying for clout, so even when there is definitely something up with you, a lot of people on Reddit just brush it off as a personality quirk

the way people on reddit talk about being an introvert is like the reverse of people on tiktok talking about being autistic. the redditors actually have an issue and don't know it

[kohakhearts]

sometimes going to bed at 7pm is self-destructive but sometimes its self-care. but watch out because you wont know which one it is until after you wake up