• miles@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t get my audhd dx until i was 28 but i feel like i always knew, and i think my life might’ve been sightly less miserable in general if id just allowed myself to accept a self-diagnosis. the attitude of “you just want to be special” seriously fucked me up lmfao.

    • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s just some gatekeeping bullshit.

      In the worst case, they want to kick anyone they don’t like to keep their identity pure and clean (newsflash: any group that extends to 1% of the population is going to include people you don’t like).

      In the best case, they think that any official institution is going to dedicate significant resources to support someone without an official diagnosis, the kind of tactics that the far right uses all the time to make one minority fight against another.