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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Morgan ⚧️

@moi @actuallyautistic @alice self-diagnosed autistic people already don't get any state or medical support. Who do you think it benefits if the only autistic people who have access to any sort of community or any support whatsoever are the ones who can afford good healthcare, and the kids whose parents cared and paid attention to their behavior?
Even if we all had access to professional diagnosis, who do you think it benefits if every single autistic person is on a list?