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Self diagnosis is valid because the formal process is bullshit lol. The diagnostic process utterly lacks reliability in practice, there has been no two years i
by faeriechangling 4y ago
Self diagnosis is valid because the formal process is bullshit lol. The diagnostic process utterly lacks reliability in practice, there has been no two years in the last half a century where autism has been diagnosed at the same rate from year to year. Diagnosis has instead multiplied many times over.
The biggest problem I have with self-diagnosis is the idea that self-diagnosis (along with formal diagnosis) is actually capable of diagnosing a neurodevelopment disorder. It just ain’t so and autism is a social construct that LARPs as a medical one.