Neurodivergent on Sidechat | hot take but self diagnosis in this economy is so fucking valid. cause why am i being charged $3500 for psychological testing when i was already sure of what i had… ?

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Neurodivergent 5w

hot take but self diagnosis in this economy is so fucking valid. cause why am i being charged $3500 for psychological testing when i was already sure of what i had… ?

Anonymous 5w

tbh i’m actually pretty alarmed by how much progress in defense of self-diagnosis / -identification has backslid over the past however-many-years. all i can say for certain is that in the early-to-mid 2010s, if you hung around progressive spaces centered on neurodivergence, you would be at Least critically side-eyed by the majority if you tried to negate someone else’s relationship to a given mental health label based solely on “yeah but you aren’t professionally diagnosed”

Anonymous

#1 5w

excuse the long-windedness, but while typing this it occurred to me that those early-2010s spaces were sort of “politically radical” by default, bc in that era it was significantly more stigmatized to talk publicly about being mentally ill and/or neurodivergent it should go without saying that destigmatization is important & 100% necessary. that being said, i wonder if the shift in popular opinion amongst these spaces is a consequence of the shift away from emphasizing deliberate politicization