#basically theres a tumblr post going around about a psychology professor going on tik tok to debunk fake tik tok psychology

[winglssdemon]

"This person said self-diagnosing is invalid!!"

I was curious, so I looked it up since I wanted to see what they actually said. What they did say about self-dxing was that you shouldn't self dx because you watched a tik tok video and believed the creator was right that sleeping on your side means you are autistic and/or have adhd.

To be perfectly honest, with the increase in the amount of people treating tik toks like actual medical information, self dx is (unfortunately) becoming less trustworthy. You're not autistic because you walk on your tip toes or sleep on your side. You can be autistic and do both of those things but those ARE NOT ASD symptoms. I legit saw someone literally say their "autism" is a "personal identity choice." And as someone who was p certain they were somewhere on the spectrum before being professionally dxed two different times, the way some people are self dxing based on nothing but random tik tokers is actual bullshit and starting to just straight up make fun of autistic people.