#self diagnosis is bullshit

[scratchykit5743]

Hot Take:

There is a difference between mentioning that you might be autistic/etc and to please be patient and going all "I'M AUTISTIC (self-diagnosed!!!1)".

Doing research on a condition you think you might have and mentioning this is okay (such as, for example, saying "I might be autistic, please be patient with me"). Taking pride in this and treating it as if it's just as valid as a diagnosis, or pretending you know better than a doctor with a PHD (or just saying that self DXing is more valid than being diagnosed by doctors, or that professional diagnoses can actually cause you harm (My dude, do you even know how delusional you sound? Diagnoses exist so you can get help)), or that it's okay to "stop at the first step" and not actually seek the help you need.

I've seen way too many people, especially on Toyhouse and Tumblr, mention their "self-diagnosis" in such narcissistic and completely delusional ways that it just makes my blood boil. and yeah, I understand that some people can't get diagnosed because they're poor, but that's still no excuse to not actively seek help for what you have.

#anti self dx #anti self diagnosis #self diagnosis is bullshit

[mlp-friendship-isnt-magic]

Exclusionists: Self diagnosis isn’t valid because only a doctor can diagnose a mental disorder. It doesn’t matter what traits you have. Only a doctor can do the complex work of sorting out what traits indicate a disorder.

Also exclusionists: All aplatonics and aplspecs have a personality disorder. All of them. No, I’m not a doctor, but I’m still qualified to say that about them. Personality disorders are just lacking friends and nothing else, right?

#exclusionists are so frustrating #why did i think it would be a good idea to scroll through their tags #for the record i support self diagnosis #and aplatonics that do have disorders #but that’s not all of us #aplatonic #aplspec #anti exclusionist #exclusionist bullshit #tw exclusionism #inclusionist #self diagnosis

[paranormalplanet]

god it's so uncomfortable how people treat you when you let them know you're nonverbal/semiverbal. i had my roomie call my professor with me and kinda be my voice and they said i was struggling to speak (i was only able to get out a weak "h-h-h- i" to prove it was me and it was so painful) they said "oh my god im so sorry" and it was so uncomfortable. they treated it like "oh you poor thing :(" even after we said it was fine and it happens and it was so weird and seemed like they thought it was horrific? i hate the pity reaction so much.

i haven't been able to speak for a few weeks and it's perfectly chill. i don't mind it at all and i just use my aac if i need/want to say something. if anything it's just mildly inconvenient? because i can't answer phone calls without help and i get weird looks from the grocery store employees but that's... about it?

please stop treating disabled people like it's a tragedy that they're different. i just need patience and understanding, not pity and apologizes. i do not think it's sad that i struggle to speak or am slow. yeah, it's tough to be in a world not made for you, but that doesn't mean it's awful. im proud of who i am and don't want pity for being myself.

#actually autistic #actually audhd #nonverbal #semispeaking #semiverbal #disability #self diagnosis is valid #neurodivergent #neurotypical bullshit #like actually why are so many nt people like this if i could speak i would say something mean about their mother /j #autistic problems #asd #gonna make an “insult neurotypical” board on my aac i stg /j #lol neurotypical more like neuroBORING #im kidding but im also very annoyed with my professor rn #bully her in the tags if u want /hj

[ghostofaudhdpast]

one day i’ll make an in depth post about how i went to get a professional autism diagnosis and the lady gave me a whole battery of irrelevant tests and only ONE autism related test (the AQ) which i scored a 39 on, and then proceeded to write in the report “her overall score on this instrument was below the significant range.”

UMMMM

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE CHEAP SEATS IN THE BACK.

so professional diagnosis is garbage and a huge waste of my time.

she was happy to give me an ADHD diagnosis though 🙄🙄🙄

#autism #audhd #its the neurodivergency #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosis #ableist bullshit #actually autistic

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

early in recovery these labels rly bothered me

#atypical #eating disorder recovery #ed recovery #atypical anorexia diagnosis #doodles #bad art #lousy drawings #doodle #positivity #self love #healing #recovery #bmi is garbage #diagnostic criteria is bullshit

[sproutzai]

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

#yiure meaning to tell me you have DID #a disorder known for severe memory loss #a disorder known to be so so difficult to disgnose to anyone unrer the age of 18 #and all of ur alters r fictional cjaracters?? all of them remember to sign off with a silly emoji?? all remember how to use a phone?? #bullshit genuine bullshit i dont care #maybe thats because i have an interest in psychology but . be so for realm #if youre gonna fake a disorder at least do the minimum amount of research #i dont even qanna get STARTED on the “autism” community #“w-wait this isnt normal??” and its like. being tired after social events. #i guarentee it is normal. #Good lord stop diagnosing yourself off tiktok or instagram reels #see genuine psychiatrists / doctors 😭. #self diagnosing isnt valid #never will be #btw #if you think you have a disorder do research and dont announce it like youve been diagnosed for the past 7 years #“i think i have adhd because i have heavy symptoms” is more mentally positive then “I ABSOLUTELY HAVE ADHD I SAW 3 REELS” #exaggeration but you know what i mean #“b-but zai!! what about the people who cant get a diagnosis!!” womp womp?? use the point i said before???? #therell come an age for everyone where they can go be independant with it and seek genuine help bruh #my bad for ranting but like. christ. #normalise mental illnesses but not the way half of you are doing it .... #🌱 idle #🌱 rant

[daz4i]

anti self diagnosis discourse (abt mental illnesses, idk physical stuff) still blows my mind, esp coming from ppl who live in countries where you can't get psychiatric medicines without prescription, bc like i genuinely do not see the harm in it at all. ig there's the whole pathologizing aspect i see ppl talk about but like that can (and often does) happen if you have an official diagnosis as well so does it really count. teens diagnosing themselves with serious mental illnesses 1 aren't always wrong 2 if they /are/ wrong, they often do this bc they have some other serious problem that's worth looking into anyway (except it's often brushed off as "everyone has anxiety" and stuff like that, which is why they lean into the less common disorders in the first place), but using a label of some personality disorder isn't gonna negate that somehow if they have someone looking out for them. even adults who self-dx, like, likely do it bc they have no way to get an official diagnosis, and again it's not like latching onto a label for now particularly harms them (if it does, the problem is not the label itself. like if they do bad shit to others, then instead of excusing it with "i do that bc i have x disorder" they'll just say "i do that bc that's who i am/that's how i was born" or shit like that, lbr. what I'm saying is the issue isn't the seld-dxing here but the behavior itself that could exist even without it/with an official diagnosis just the same)

and yeah i mean all this even if the person in question DOES have the means to get an official diagnosis, bc that shit is still difficult and scary, and if you're a woman or a person of color or lgbt (esp trans) or even just fat you're already gonna have a hard time getting one (or getting an *accurate* one, at least) anyway bc medical officials and esp psychiatric ones seem to dismiss or mishandle those groups in particular

like. from my own personal experience here. getting an official diagnosis that later ended up being wrong hurt me way more in the long run than self diagnosing with something and being wrong ever could (also, i self-dxed and ended up being right, too, so like maybe we can trust people to know what they're talking about when it comes to their own psyche and consider that maybe they can do their research about mental illness just fine)

#ironically the thing i bring up in that last paragraph is smth that started with me self diagnosing #and then getting an official diagnosis for what i suspected. but then being in a mental ward and the doctors there insisting - #- that diagnosis was wrong and so giving me treatment for a different disorder instead. which def screwed me in the long run #not medically thankfully but definitely mentally. I'm still suffering bc of their bullshit 8 years(!!!!) later #so yeah can we please trust people to understand their own brains the best. thank you #ajskflglh feels like I'm posting more rants than usual these days. sorry i have a lot of rage - #- and expressing it over topics that won't get me death threats for expressing is a safe way for me to let it out i think.

[chronicpainnatural]

People will present the fact that autistic people tend to assume everyone is probably good and have good intentions as evidence of the fact that autistic people are unrealistic and out of touch with reality :/

#jtalks #actually autistic #i feel so smug about getting to use that hashtag after having been only self-diagnosed for years #if ur self-dx don't worry diagnosis is kinda bullshit just use the language that gets your point across 👍

[purpurrock]

Ewwww,, imagine being transphobic on tumblr I could never❗❗🤢🤢

#trans #transphobia #trans positivity #radfem #terf #radfem bullshit #terf bullshit #fart #transgender #trans rights #fuck transphobes #this is also ableist btw #“the weirdest combination of diagnosis” me when mentally ill people say they have mental illness😠😠 #ableism #self dx

[catcatb0y]

Giving every Narcissist a little kiss on the head.

#npd love #npd safe #everyone trying to demonize you is so so stupid #it's such bullshit #narcisstic abuse is not a real thing #it's really not #no more than autistic abuse is a thing or ADHD abuse is a thing- schizoid abuse isn't real! #you're not somehow predispositioned to become an abuser or abusive person #much less because you struggle with your own self view or perception #because of past trauma or because that's just how your brain was wired #no one deserves to have their diagnosis used as a pathetic petty insult from the most self absorbed assholes on the planet #I will bite their heads off your you

[a-very-fond-farewell]

sorry for the lack of content these days. so have a kitty instead

(it’s a black cat with yellow eyes among greenery behind a fence with a tartan-printed bike in the background. so innefable ahah)

#sneaky niki #got some bad-ish news and I am considering my options #work-wise at least #also I would really like to seek a proper diagnosis for adhd and get myself sorted out #but I need a new gp for that bc my actual one doesn’t believe in adults having adhd #also my country is a fucking farce and homo/transphobic politicians are spewing bullshit left and right #some members of my family are very conservative as well #my anxiety is through the roof and I probably bite #so.. bad times folks #tw self harm #(yeah that happened too. relapse sucks) #sorry for venting. I think I do more harm than good these days. been very quiet at home too #if u read the tags please go hug a person a pet a tree a plant.. something #you are important and worth fighting for #niki out

[thebewilderer]

petition for people to stop talking to me about their self-diagnosing with random shit based on stereotypes and the pathologization of normal behaviors that's being spread around on ticktocks as if I'll care or support them in any way whatsoever

#this FUCKING girl at work who equates ''forgetting to autism mask'' with ''resting bitch face'' #''oh you know the autistic thing with spoons'' i hate to break this to you casey but youre the single most annoying person #she saw i have blue hair and pronoun and immediately assumed id be supportive of the pathologizing of normal behavior #at least thats my theory #''lol im so adhd; i always forget theres a pizza in the oven'' #wow thats so cutesy and nonharmful i wonder how people who actually have adhd and SUFFER would feel about you making fun of them like that #the answer is angry btw im angry #im just dealing with her bullshit for now but if she starts up using ocd as an adjective im putting my fucking foot down #make fun of disabled people on your own time in private mkay #ugh the more i think about it the more frustrated i get #imagine going up to someone in a cast and going ''LOL yeah i have arm problems too haha them broken boney probs amiright'' #like i will beat you with a fucking stick #ih #pers #self diagnosis #uhhhh #ableism #oh yeah almost forgot this tag #me being problematic probably

[shadowsbrainrot]

tw: vent ableism

i hate that an autism diagnosis is hidden behind a paywall that i couldn’t possibly afford. i hate how nobody takes me seriously, i hate how i know that nobody will take me seriously regardless of a diagnosis or not bc that’s what ppl do with autistic ppl.

I hate that i do not have sufficient supports, i hate having nobody that understands what’s going on with my brain, i hate that i have to be in survival mode 24/7, i hate how since i’ve been high masking and traumatized my whole life everyone around me ignored my autism and think i can just keep going indefinitely. i hate how tired i am i hate how the moment i feel even a second of autistic joy the fear of neurotypical expectations immediately crushes it

#autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosis #actually autistic #ableist bullshit #fuck the healthcare system #tw ableism #tw vent

[mintedwitcher]

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of self-diagnostic autism screening tests, and they're all saying pretty much the same thing, so why am I taking more of them?

#nobody try the 'ew self diagnosis' bullshit you'll be blocked on sight #in this house we respect self diagnosis #but like goddamn #this is NOT a complaint i'm not upset or unhappy about the results i've been getting just fyi #this actually really is helping and making me feel a lot more comfortable/confident #im just somehow still fucking surprised #personal #literally with every result i get im like #*shocked pikachu face* #even though i KNOW

[cozycreaturescorner]

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#emmett is yelling #mothers will pretend you don't exist for days #because you had the confidence to mention that something she was saying to you felt rude and a little mean #im just thinking a lot about how her going undiagnosed/not believing a real diagnosis for various things has set me up for some bullshit #and i'm left to figure out what's really going on with me and coincidentally what's been going on with her #i just kinda wish sometimes that she'd had more self knowledge and awareness and proper support/treatment before deciding to have us

[jesuisgourde]

english is stupid i am talking about separate interactions of 4 different people in one sentence and it’s so long and i have so many ‘that’s in it and i do not know how to change it to make it sound less stupid. because right now it sounds like a gossipy teen girl in a comedy movie. probably i have to break it into two sentences or fit a semicolon in there but i’m not sure how to do it well

also i’m about to hit the fucking “what if richey was autistic and we’re supporting our claim with quotes from a pseudoscientist in a daily mail article” nonsense section of this stupid fucking book

#wt writeup #i'm fully here for self diagnosis #(although 'self' is the operative word i think) #but not when it's supported by a psuedoscientist condemned by the autism self advocacy network #or by THE most stereotypical bullshit i've ever seen #because it's uhhh really not a very nice or nuanced description of autism #also they use ''aspergers'' despite this book being published in 2019 #i really should have filmed myself the first time i read this book #you would not BELIEVE the amount of times i had to put it down and walk angrily around the room during this segment