> One of the most helpful things I ever heard was "If you think you might be autistic, it's likely you are." Even if you get a formal diagnosis and it turns out

> One of the most helpful things I ever heard was "If you think you might be autistic, it's likely you are." Even if you get a formal diagnosis and it turns out you're not, you can have many traits of autism. (Technically, you have to have at least 1 trait from an array of specific categories to be diagnosed, so you can have many traits and still fail the test.) Maybe. But that can be easily abused. You can barely throw a stone on Discord without seeing PluralKit and others, bots ostensibly aimed at helping people with DID effectively communicate their alters. Perhaps it started that way, but there's an entire generation who seem to have decided something similar with DID, and it has become much more "every mood or feeling is an identity". One general Discord server I saw recently had easily 20 people who claimed to have 40-50 distinct identities (numbers which would place them in the very upper echelons of DID, and quite likely having articles written about them in Psychology Today). "John is my angry alter, and Sam is my quiet alter, and ..." I'd say if anything, "if you think you might be autistic, maybe you should find out". As it is, I think the neurodivergent label is becoming almost "cool", and there is certainly a subset that sniffs a little at the concept of neurotypical.