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No longer seeking a diagnosis under the current administration. Me and my children will do our best to stay out of concentration camps. In the meantime we’ll manage as we have been.
My thoughts exactly. I’m undiagnosed, and with rfk running shit, it’s staying that way.
Been in it for the last couple months. The thing is, im too poor and kinda scared to seek diagnosis
Why you gotta call me out like this
Hah jokes on you im like 95% sure i have adhd just it came out really late so everyone thinks im lazy but thats my master plan because if ww3 breaks out the usa wont put me in a concentration camp for neurodivergents.
Sprinkle in some imposter syndrome salt-bae-style.
But what if I am not good enough to have imposter syndrome?
I like to refer to myself as “peer reviewed” AuDHD. Every neurodivergent person I’ve talked to is like “yeah dude, we can tell.” I had autistic people accepting me as autistic before I accepted me as autistic. XD
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I am in this photo and do not like it
I’m unsure if I am, so what does that mean?
Came here looking for this. Was not disappointed
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, was on meds through the school years but dropped it off then. In adult age I’ve kinda regretted it at times, but now I’m too lazy to go talk with doc about it again almost 20 years later.
Similar boat. Only took pills for like a year in elem before my complaining about it fucking my stomach was effective. Really wish my head was on even partially straight during hs. Maybe I would have went to a different (cheaper) college and been able to finish my degree… Been meaning to talk to doc for quite a while about it too lol
It gets “easier” if you have kids on the spectrum. They get diagnosed, you recognize all the same signs in yourself. Easier in quotes because figuring out you’re looking at Au/DHD is hard on everyone.
Going through this now at 31, have I even met someone neurotypical???
Hard not to be in the doubt with all the posts popping in my stream from this sub or the adhd one when I hit most of the cases. But I’m old and functional enough so who cares about the inner workings right?
i actually overcame my ED enough to talk to a psychologist, only to learn that the criteria for diagnosis here includes “is not able to lead a(n outwardly) mostly normal life despite the symptoms”. which means i’d have to go to a private practice to get anywhere.
Let’s say I do book an appointment, get the test(s), and it’s positive. Now what? Do I show it to my boss the get easier tasks? How much can/will an official diagnosis affect my life? (In Australia if it helps)
I can only speak from my experience (USA based), but:
You can get access to drugs you may or may not wish to use.
Any new life insurance plan’s premiums will go up as soon as you get prescribed those meds.
You will probably go through a period of post diagnosis regression as you reevaluate unhealthy coping mechanisms you’ve developed. Even if you think you already accept your brain for its difficulties and quirks.
You might spend a couple months being really annoying about your diagnosis as you figure out how to incorporate it into your identity. This lines up with a lot of the post diagnosis regression.
On the far side, you might end up redeveloping new coping strategies that are slightly less shame driven. But the demands of the world around you probably won’t flex around your new diagnosis.
TBH if you’re old enough to be on here you probably already know how to manage your environment and needs to live in the world, it’s just a question of if you can actually acknowledge you have special needs and if you’re capable of being kind to yourself while addressing them. And a diagnosis does help with quelling the anxiety around “do I actually have special needs or is everybody like this”
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From my experience: Only an ADHD diagnosis is useful, and only because the medications really do help.
For autistic children it’s sometimes worth diagnosis to get additional help in education.
Me, but the shitty UKs underfunded health care means it would take a while to get anywhere.
Getting adhd diagnosis is important you can get meds for that. Getting autism diagnosed seems at best a confirmation and at worst actively making your life more difficult. It labels you as disabled and not like there are meds for it
I considered getting it officially confirmed for both, then RFK made his concentration camp comment.
100% same!
I look at it like alcoholism. I have been functional in my life so im fine where I am at (to some degree but that is more about US societal issues around a functioning society).
And also after Trump just the other day decided to unban insane asylums.
If it wasn’t the fascists doing it I would have welcomed having more mental healthcare facilities. But these are probably gonna be 1920s style hell holes instead.
100 years later - “oops we found a mass grave in the basement”
“How could this have happened without anyone knowing about it?”
Narrator: “Literally everyone knew about it.”
definately. the idea is poor to homeless to prisons/asylums and for the prisons/asylums to be profitable so just enough to keep you alive to keep up the payments from the state but no more than that.
Yes, but I used the term “insane asylum” specifically due to its history in the US. Trump spent a lot of his campaign ranting about “Hannibal Lector” after all.
