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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@actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ASD #Trans #SelfDiagnosis #SelfDX #SelfDxIsValid #Research #Codeberg

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moi („• ֊ •„)੭ Nov 8, 2023

@alice @actuallyautistic self diagnosing autism water's down the term. It becomes meaningless. Also a lot of these tests make "neurotypical" individuals think they might have autism when instead they could just be suffering from something like social anxiety without any mental disorders such as autism.

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danimo 🏳️‍🌈

@moi I am diagnosed, but I find the claim that my existence has to be confirmed by a (usually neurotypical) professional problematic. It's okay if you agree with living in the neurotypical world according to its rules, but please don't impose that on your fellow members of the spectrum. I don’t care about NTs, thinking they are Autistic. Fuck them. Their Problem. I care about my people on the Spectrum who think, they may be autistic, because that is totally valid.

@actuallyautistic @alice