getting diagnosed with autism at 23 was the best thing that had happened to me in many many years and sure would have been nice if it was something I could have considered on my own
Also damn I wonder if there are race or gender disparities in autism diagnosis. Probably Not Fortunately
I mean self diagnosis can be unhelpful at times. This is coming from someone that has waited years for access to healthcare, diagnosis, etc and did try self diagnose. You can consider it yourself, but diagnosing yourself is where it can get dodgy. If you do try diagnose yourself, medical professionals, if/when you do eventually see them, are less likely to take your problems seriously and more likely to throw you in the hypochondriac box. It's unfortunate, but I've experienced this. So if you are planning to self diagnose (I don't suggest doing so), don't bring it up to your doctor.
This right here is why these online "communities" on twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, etc, are some of the worst spaces for people with chronic illnesses, conditions and neurodiverse people to hang out in. There is no "shared experience" one can verify here. They turn into depression treadmills of unverifiable internet strangers bringing each other down instead of helping others. Filled with people indulging their unhealthy behaviours, such as coming up with terms no medical professional would endorse like FP (favourite person) to describe/romanticise unhealthy attachments to others for example (Online BPD communities do this a ton). Also advising people to see quack doctors like chiropractors, "just try weed bro", etc. (More common in physical chronic illness communities). Unfortunately you cannot substitute real community with anonymous randoms on the internet.
Again, this is coming from someone who is chronically ill.
This is the truth. Once I saw a post on /r/migraine that said something like "I've tried everything, including cannabis, and nothing helps" and half the replies were just "have you tried cannabis tho?"
Have you tried doing cannabis, ON WEED
Weed is the new magic treatment for zoomers and millenials. Even though smoking it is unhealthy (because smoking anything is unhealthy, do edibles if you can, vapourise for harm reduction if edibles don't work) and in terms of neuropathic pain, it can only help for central neuropathic pain, it cannot help for peripheral neuropathy. At least from what we know as of now.
I’m pretty sure it’s all being astroturfed by guys who got in early as soon as they could open stores in California
Wait but my buddy said vaping feels less healthy, surely she can't be wrong ?!
Lmao.
Don't worry folks inhaling stuff in your lungs is totally healthy and cool haha
Say that on :reddit-logo: and the /r/trees bunch will stalk you to the ends of the earth, frothing with rage, because they're full of peace and love that came from le weed and how dare you. It must be le smoked, because asking for any other delivery vector is like mom telling them what to do.
I mean smoking joints is fun, I used to do it, but I was under no delusion that it was healthy.
Some people have smoke allergies, there's some social settings where smoking anything is just inconsiderate and rude, and there's other ways to get high that don't require smoke in the air (or on clothes and furniture or clinging to the walls or cycling through an apartment building's shared air conditioning). That's what I was getting at, too.
Yeah smoking in public is inconsiderate for sure. Or in a shared living space/ventilation
A decade of apartment living by a college taught me that. :desolate:
Do what I did, realise I was probably autistic, and when I went to the neuropsych, say I was recommended by friends so they're not as suspicious :troll:
I dont participate in Internet communities other than this one so you could totally be right i guess
but plenty of people have no opportunity to get assessed for this and I think they should be allowed to understand themselves too
Yeah hexbear is generally more healthy because we have the "we are not a crisis service rule". But outside of that, it really is the wild west. Some spaces are good, some are really bad. I just found self diagnosis more harmful long term, both for physical and mental illness, because it hampered my interactions when I could finally afford to get treatment.
I'm sorry you had that experience, I wouldn't be surprised if it were relatively common. But I don't think it's a sufficient reason to throw out self-diagnosis entirely (not that I think that's what you're doing).
Also I'm sorry if my post made you mad or reminded you of bad memories, I posted this because I was pissed off but didn't really consider that this was a contentious issue.
Nah I'm not mad at all, just talking. No worries.
I appreciate the consideration though :anarchy-heart:
I avoid opening my mail, sometimes forever, and can avoid simple tasks for months or years while always knowing that they need to be done. I just assume I have ADD.
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