I don't think I should be on here.

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Recently, I have seen a rise of people debating that undiagnosed people are fakers such as this post for an example. https://www.reddit.com/r/hatethissmug/c ... ed_autism/

My dad has claimed I was misdiagnosed as a toddler. I don't know why my parents never did another appointment again. It is too late now since getting an assessment cost thousands of dollars in my backward's country. (US) I do have a gut feeling I am at least neurodivergent. I have a learning disability and still struggle with social skills. I also have some fixations though I think NT can also have fixations too. I often hum which I heard is considered stimming. Had panic attacks throughout the years. Correct me if I am wrong with some of these details.

I don't know if I am allowed to be on here anymore. Maybe I don't have autism. Maybe it's something else.

Given that WP is welcoming to both clinically diagnosed as well as self diagnosed autistics, in addition to non-autistic individuals, I figure it doesn't really matter. If you experience the symptoms you do, then even if you aren't autistic, the symptoms are similar enough that you're still in good company.

Having a formal/official Autism diagnosis is not required to be on Wrong Planet.

Having an unofficial Autism diagnosis is not required to be on Wrong Planet.

Having a suspicion of possibly having Autism is not required to be on Wrong Planet.

CORRECTION:
<=>A polite interest in Autism is the entrance requirement expectation.
<=>A polite interest in Autism is the entrance requirement.

No matter how you answered the above, this might interest you:

https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient

While I do agree that autism is being overdiagnosed these days, I would never doubt anyone who says themselves they have symptoms that affect them in some way, as you know yourself more than I know you so who am I to judge a stranger on the internet about their mind lol.

I got doubted on an ADHD site. Someone asked me if I really have ADHD or if I'm just "following the trend". Um, no, I definitely have ADHD, quite severe in fact. It makes me unique and I have typical ADHD-related struggles, and as a child I had physical and emotional hyperactivity that made me a challenge for my parents.

You're welcome here even without formal diagnosis.

I hope you stay.

Look at the link in my sig then decide which of us has less business here.

I'm glad you're staying! I think you should be on here.

I just posted in the topic ‘Patience’ Star Ella Maisy Purvis, post #13 links to series 2 of Patience, and a link to a BBC interview of Ella Maisy Purvis, who plays Patience. Both are autistic, but tell me: from the BBC interview, would think Purvis is autistic if you met her?

I've put myself down as "don't know if I have it or not", by which I mean I think I might have it, but I can't get a professional diagnosis. I think the (American?) fad of self-diagnosis is easily abused, so I refuse to go for that. My primary (sole) diagnosis is OCD, which entails a lot of doubt, even self-doubt, but is co-morbid with autism.

Purvis tried to get an autism diagnosis from the UK's NHS during the Pandemic, but was refused because she "made good eye contact", and a diagnosis would make her liable to "deprivation of liberty" (read: thrown in a police cell) if she had a "meltdown" in public. The NHS seems to be reserving diagnoses for the most severe autists. Purvis got a private diagnosis, because her parents could afford it. Like you, I can't though.

This global retraction of Aserger's syndrome has worked against those of us who fail to meet the NHS's stringent citeria, but still struggle with things NTs seem to breeze through. As Purvis said, the NHS diagnostician told her she seemed to cope well, but Purvis pointed out she was there for a diagnosis because she hadn't.

Fixations can be OCD, or look like OCD. I sometimes wonder if autists' OCD is different from NT OCD, hence the co-morbidity, but the psychiatrists have missed this. (They are so bad at understanding OCD anyway.) I'm curious though, which mental health forum? Also, is your learning disability academic?

I was also put in a special needs classrooms throughout the years all up to graduation because I was misdiagnosed and they didn't know much about Autism then, and now, I'm in this fight in adulthood to get proper care and its very hard. I hope you feel better and I'm glad you are going to stay here.