(some) Reasons People Self-Diagnose
- Don’t have enough money to get official diagnosis
- Worried about discrimination for being transgender
- Worried about discrimination because of their race
- Afraid of reaction from friends or family
- Worried about difficulties getting a job after diagnosis
- Bad previous experience
- Anxiety hindering their ability to go get diagnosed
- They realize that having a degree does not completely absolve you of all the ableism you’ve learned your entire life
- Don’t have the courage to admit that they have a mental illness except on the internet towards a bunch of strangers who have similar problems to them and therefore aren’t as likely to judge them
- Worried about not being taken seriously
- Worried about getting diagnosed wrong (again, having a degree does not make you all knowing)
- Ableism
- Ableism
- Ableism
- ABLEISM!!
- Are you even neuroatypical?
- How do you not know this?
NOT Reasons People Self-Diagnose
- seeking attention
- trying to feel special
