Misdiagnosed and bitter, looking for support

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You could do what I did when I was 22. I got a job far away from my parent's home and moved. Moved into a cheap apartment and found new friends. You don't have to tell anyone about your diagnoses.

I wish you all the best on your music career! Please keep in mind that there's also a lot of luck and timing factors, no matter how talented you are, and no matter how you work at it week in and week out. Do you like any heavy metal, for example, "Crimson Day" by Avenged Sevenfold?

And I would ask you to consider that people tend to write off childhood diagnoses. And a lot of people think Aspergers and Autism Spectrum are overdiagnosed anyway. I think they're mistaken in this belief, but it's definitely out there.

With the girl you went to the movies with, it's okay to be spectrum, it's also okay to merely be spectrum friendly as it were, having some traits but not others. Both are perfectly okay.

And if and when you do make it big financially, just make sure to have a good accountant you can trust. Don't try to do the income statement and taxes yourself, but just occasionally review them in a thoroughly half-assed fashion. And if a childhood diagnosis comes up, of course it's private medical records, but if it somehow leaks out, just say something like, People get diagnosed all kinds of ways as children, I don't put that much stock in it. I am all in favor of people who are different getting the same respect as all of us. Please do add some version of this last part.

I think it may be possible to get un-diagnosed, though I'm not sure of the details of how to go about it. I'm guessing you'd need to pay privately for another assessment, explaining to the assessor that you think you've been misdiagnosed or that you think your autistic traits are sub-clinical.

But you're unlikely to get support here on WP for the process - because most of us here see nothing wrong with being diagnosed autistic. As others have said, the diagnosis need not hold you back.

I think you'd be better off addressing the question of why it bothers you so much. The diagnosis obviously had a big negative impact on your childhood, perhaps because of stigma? so it might help to talk more to people about that.