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2026-07-26 22:55 UTC
I have a friend who did an Autism assessment, the result of which was, to paraphrase: If you were assessed as a child, you almost certainly would've been diagnosed with Asperger's. But you've developed sufficient coping skills to avoid being diagnosed at this point in your life.
Isn't that basically saying: yes you broke your leg, but you spent years fashioning a splint out of a log, so you can kinda walk now, so your leg isn't really broken anymore?
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
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@lmgenealogy@mstdn.ca 2026-07-27 00:57
@dave@autisticnomad.social I was once told that I probably *used to* have #ADHD, but now I'm just afraid to grow up. (This was by #MayoClinic, which has been successfully sued by various psychiatric patients for misdiagnosis. They might be brilliant in everything else, but in my experience, they simply view #neurodivergence as an excuse for laziness. Which is what everyone thought years ago before we knew better.) Oh, also apparently I didn't get along with my mother. They based that on my tendency to interrupt her - which, hello, is classic ADHD. Fortunately she didn't take their 'diagnosis' as truth and feel hurt.