Mastodawn

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Jul 28, 2023

Is autism self-diagnosis valid? Yep. 💜

Hey all, after reading dozens of research papers, and meta-analyses, and living through it, I made a thing!

I'd love it if you'd check it out! 🥰

https://codeberg.org/alicewatson/asd-self-dx/src/branch/main

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Update: I replaced the header image, now people can complain about the actual research instead of the thumbnail.

Also, before any more guys respond with gatekeepy opinions about my conclusions, try reading the paper first.

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Anyia, geeky 🏳️‍⚧️ girl

@alice As someone who's on a number of occasions been told I'm likely "on the spectrum" and also happen to have a large number of ND people in my friendship circle, I took the opportunity to check out the self-tests you've gathered. You know, just in case I was in for a surprise (like I was when you linked genderdysphoria .fyi 😅).

And I'm not surprised that the tests all agree with me - I'm not likely autistic or adhd. Yes, I do share certain common traits, but in my view there are alternate, better reasons that can explain those (being trans a major one, having an engineering type mindset another).

So, thank you for putting together a good resource, even if I ended up using it for arguably the opposite of its intended use :)
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