Anonymous OP 8w

or I mean, where do you draw the line? if one is so intent on deferring to the professionals, why not defer to the specific professionals who say that “self-diagnosis” does tend to count for something? people will come across awfully smug about “only listening to licensed pros” even while they use that as permission to not do their own critical thinking

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the irony of starting off such an incoherent reply with “this is simple” 😭😭😭

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like… first you say “only a psychiatric evaluation should be taken seriously”, but then you say “[observation based on their lived experience] cannot be superseded by an actual diagnosis”? you’re contradicting yourself. do you just not know what “superseded” means? and what’s all this talk of whether or not someone “has the right” to call themselves autistic? that’s not your call to make. being into authoritarianism doesn’t automatically qualify you as the authority lol

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Anonymous #2 8w

yes, multiple different people were doing that in this very group just a couple days ago (although one of them already deleted their comments)

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Anonymous #2 8w

but also, like. if someone says “I’m autistic, and no I don’t have an official on-record diagnosis” and you feel the need to personally evaluate them to the contrary, even just as far as “no, you probably are not”, that’s still taking on a false air of authority (according to their own “only a psych can really tell” standards) by presuming to know a person’s neurotype better than they do themself. that’s still weird, smug & disrespectful behavior

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