I disagree with self-diagnosis and also amateur diagnosis. People with these issues might live life in similar ways on certain topics but their clinical symptoms and treatments are very different. Lumping everyone under big umbrellas creates problems, it’s bad enough that Autism is a spectrum on its own with wildly different peoples under it.
The way autism and adhd are talked about in public discourse are pretty divorced from the definitions in the dsm-5. It has far more to do with identity at this point than anything else. But yeah, every person is their own creature and labels are hard.
I disagree with self-diagnosis and also amateur diagnosis. People with these issues might live life in similar ways on certain topics but their clinical symptoms and treatments are very different. Lumping everyone under big umbrellas creates problems, it’s bad enough that Autism is a spectrum on its own with wildly different peoples under it.
The way autism and adhd are talked about in public discourse are pretty divorced from the definitions in the dsm-5. It has far more to do with identity at this point than anything else. But yeah, every person is their own creature and labels are hard.