What are your symptoms and behaviours? Are they disabling enough? Have they been persistent since childhood? Could they better be explained by something else?

>>34380667
Symptoms and behaviour are too long to list. Yes they've been present since my youngest moments. They have defined me and made basic things like going to school as a kid hellish. I probably developed the avoidant personality due to poor treatment as a result of never fitting in due to the tism symptoms. Idk if they could be explained by something else, I'm not a psychologist. Its just that from personal experience and behaviour I tick every box for autism, apart from 'not understanding sarcasm' because I may be retarded in one sense but I'm still high IQ enough to understand and use blatant sarcasm, thoug admittedly I miss subtle sarcasm especially when being used in a cruel way toward me, and people often misunderstand when I'm being sarcastic and who I'm not.

>>34380621
There is literally no point unless u think it's bad enough to get NEETbux. Like there is no special treatment for it, or advantage to having the dx legally. If anything currently I'd be wary about getting put on a list and sent to an RFK wellness farm or some nonsense.

Just see a therapist that has experience with neurodivergant people and if your autistic they'll sus you out and give you that type of advice dx'd or not.

File: dj.jpg (11 KB, 250x250)

11 KB JPG

I avoided getting the diagnosis for a long time because I thought I could manage it. Turns out I couldn't and now I can't work or do anything at all really. I just sit at home screaming internally 24/7. So I'm getting the diagnosis, maybe it'll help with getting neetbux so I don't kill myself. I don't think there's help out there for me though.

So basically what >>34381707 said.

>>34381793
I feel the same. I didn't make it to the workforce. I was in constant burnout for the final 3 years of school, and crashed out in the first year of college. I genuinelly couldn't understand why everyone else was so excited and happy to be going when for me it was horrible. I have failed about 100 job interviews in the years following, even for the most basic shit where they let any immigrant do the job. The hiring manager instantly clocks me as weird and the interviews are typically short. I get those subtle but brutal instant rejections which you only come to understand fully after the interview is over. That or they sometimes instsntly clock me but drag the interview out to make fun of me if that's entertaining to them.

>>34380621
>I've been ghosting all former acquaintances
That is a autism symptom?

>>34382716
Yes.

>>34382716
>>34382904
NTA but my most recent revelation is that all my problems are autism related, not just a few of them. Not even hypochondriamaxing, it's real.

>>34380621
How about stop being avoidant? Problem solved.

>>34380621
gut not brain
cultivate your gut

>>34380621
Having a diagnosis might allow professionals to comprehend your issues better, which allows them to help more. If you want help I say go for it.


> I also don't like how people (women) collect mental disabilities like trophies to flaunt.

You don't need to do that; you can save the diagnosis for yourself. This isn't relevant.

>>34383131
good professionals won't even think of a diagnosis if you don't explicitly ask or need to get stuff

>>34380621
instead of "seeking a diagnosis" just go to a therapist
they'll probably be able to actuall help if they're no

>>34384090
Therapy won't do shit. I hate interacting with people and a shrink won't help that. Best I can get is formal diagnosis so then at the very least I have a basis for my weird behaviour and people may cut some slack. Right now I mask and appear normal enough that people are super brutal every time I slip up, as if me pulling a funny face for a split second is actually a 4d chess sign of disrespect rather than my mask slipping for a moment.