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Why I Am More and More Ambivalent About My Autism Diagnosis (nytimes.com)
2 points by bookofjoe on April 26, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Imagine if you changed autism to heart attack in this article. Should people do nothing if they have signs of a heart attack, we all know that self diagnosis is wrong right?



The headline seems slightly misleading. They accept that they are in fact autistic, as diagnosed.

What they are ambivalent about is, well it's a little unclear, but something along the lines of whether "the left" have ruined society by being too nice to the mentally ill and marginalized or something like that.


After talking about that ("the left"...), this paragraph seems the most connected to the title:

> Almost three years after my diagnosis, I’m increasingly ambivalent about the label. It’s not a core, or even relevant, part of my self-concept. I still have many of the same idiosyncrasies as I did three years ago, but I don’t need to fixate on my autism to accept them. At a certain point, making my identity revolve around a neurological condition began to feel limiting.




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