Not so gentle fucking reminder that the groups that self-diagnosis is most common in are as follows:
– People living in poverty without access to medical care.
– Minors with parents who refuse to give them access to a doctor.
– Abuse victims who can’t see a doctor because their every move is being tracked.
– PoC who have faced discrimination from doctors or an inability to find doctors of color who would better understand their needs.
– Disabled people who don’t have access to the means necessary to see a doctor.
– Mentally ill people whose mental illness directly interferes with their ability to see a doctor.
And that the most common reason for self-diagnosis is a person’s desire to better understand themselves and their symptoms and find support and community.
And honestly, if you’re against that, you’re a seriously shitty person.
i’m not living in poverty and i’m in a country with so-called “free” healthcare and yet i’d have to pay between $500 and $1000 to be “officially” tested and diagnosed with either adhd or asd as an adult since they’re classed as “childhood” conditions so fuck that
I am not living in poverty and it’s quite likely I could get diagnoses for absolutely FREE but the mental health system is incredibly ableist and abusive.
I am scarred from the process of obtaining the one ‘official’ diagnosis I’ve got and I am never getting another unless I have to choose between diagnosis and death. That’s why I self-diagnose and people who don’t like it can go fuck themselves.
QueerAnarchism 