Why self-diagnosed autistics are valid
- medical diagnosis can be expensive
- humans are the experts on their own minds
- family may prevent assessment
- diagnosis criteria is a poor checklist of stereotypes
- diagnosis criteria ignores gender, race, sexuality, culture & more
- medical diagnosis confirms autism, but doesn’t create it
- discrimination within the medical profession may prevent diagnosis.
- Assessment waiting lists often long
- medical trauma may make assessment unfeasible
+ by the time people reach adulthood they may have learned enough masking strategies to complicate the process of getting a diagnosis
