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...Granted, most psychiatrists are idiots when it comes to ASD. They're operating on outdated as hell info and their own biases. I've seen way too much "well gee you're holding a conversation with me, there's no way your autistic" to actually take diagnosis seriously. I was diagnosed at six years old- It was obvious then and there was a ton of intervention- If I went for a diagnosis now, oh boy.
That's a great point wrt: diagnosis as an adult. Many folks with ASD have learned how to mask effectively enough that they are then dismissed by psychiatrists later in life because they're not exhibiting specific symptom.
Hey, I want to ask, how are you managing to post comments here from 4d2's Lemmy instance? I've tried posting comments on other instances but it seemed like it was never going to go through.