I’ve been internet-diagnosed with autism plenty of times, but the one time I went to get evaluated, they said I didn’t have “it.”
But if it’s a spectrum with different combinations of different traits at different levels of intensity, maybe a diagnosis is irrelevant and what matters is what your constellation of traits actually is, regardless of an official diagnosis (which, let’s face it, is probably highly subjective outside of some constellations–that is to say, with a long enough list of psychologits, I could probably get a dx).
Personally, for me, what this means is I can look to autistic literature to see what resonates with me without worrying about the fact that I don’t share many of the hard markers for autism. For instance, my investment in the truth often conflicts with social niceties even though I can read people’s emotions. I can see myself as an unofficially atypical person in a lot of ways.
I’ll leave my resonsances in the comments below. Feel free to share yours.
I think mental health is like this in general. Nothing is unique and everyone has a bit of everything. Some is just so low as to be zero or so high it dominates the personality. Im not sure if I have anything but when someone mentioned this thing with like perception of your body in space and really made me wonder given the way I have been through my life. I was trying to look into it and and moved primary care to get into the medical group that has a guy that diagnoses neural things but he does not take the insurance.
Yup. Everyone has a bit of everything, the question in psychology is if it INTERFERES with your life in a significant way or not.
But what would a diagnosis change for you? If you got one or your didn’t?
my main concern is it might be more core to other things. I will be seeing someone for depression and it would sorta suck if dealing with a nerological issue ameleorated the depression.