Well. A couple of years of pondering, researching, and quiz taking with consistent results... I'm fairly confident I'm on the ASD scale.

I just did a well reputed online assessment and my score for AT is 167 of 200 vs. NT score of 70 of 200, so it's pretty solid.

Not sure if this allows me to use #ActuallyAutistic or not, but we shall see.

@clearlykrystle congratulations on moving from the suspectrum onto the spectrum! You can totally use #ActuallyAutistic.

The University of Washington Autism Center: "Inaccurate self-diagnosis of autism appears to be uncommon. We believe that if you have carefully researched the topic and strongly resonate with the experience of the autistic community, you are probably autistic".

Article on Self-diagnosis: https://autistictic.com/2020/08/10/autism-self-diagnosis-yay-or-nay/

Embrace Autism quote:
"We are lateral thinkers. Our superior lateral abilities generate multiple relevant possibilities for any problem. So we hypothesize what we might actually be and come up with many alternatives. Even if autism perfectly describes us, we may still have doubts because some of our behaviors can be attributed to other conditions".

Autistic imposter syndrome: https://www.spectrumlife.org/blog/autism-imposter-syndrome-826

AUTISM SELF-DIAGNOSIS...YAY OR NAY? - AUTISTICTIC

What is self-diagnosis? What is self-diagnosis not? Why do some people support it, and others oppose it? Should we accept autism self-diagnosis or not? Why?

AUTISTICTIC

@Zumbador @clearlykrystle The medical gatekeeping when they know less than we do.

It's institutionalized arrogance.