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- Dec 12, 2023
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I See nothing wrong with speculating that you may have a disorder, but to actually full on self diagnose yourself is wrong. I'm diagnosed with autism and I hate seeing how many people self diagnose.
I've seen a lot of people on tiktok say "self diagnosis is valid! It doesn't hurt anyone" but that's not true. Many actual autistic people ( or adhd, bpd, whatever ) are not taken seriously because of this. It's so bad in fact, that I've seen many people who are autistic leave comments saying they don't like it, and people who probably agree with their points will reply to them accusing them of faking. I saw someone say they don't like when people fake or self diagnose, and someone literally replied to them with something like "you're not autistic, I work with an autistic person and he can't even speak, you'd hang your head in shame if you knew what it was really like." And it's so annoying, because people wouldn't reply shit like that if it wasn't for these tiktokers
I don't think everyone who does this is actively faking a disorder, I think many of them are just led to believe they have it because of the amount of videos that are like " if you do these 5 things you might have autism " and everything in the video is a super vague thing that many non autistic people do. Plus if that's literally your entire FYP, of course you're gonna start to believe it eventually. The app is very harmful and it's convincing a bunch of people that they have a bunch of different illnesses. I deleted tiktok a long time ago, but I'm 18, so I spent a couple of my teen years on there, and it's genuinely insane how much of a trend this stuff is. people are really making autism and mental illness into something "quirky", the same people who used to bully us are now faking this shit
Before I used to not care about being autistic, but all of these self diagnosed people have made me scared that nobody Will believe me when I say I'm diagnosed, which I have seen many times, so I think that's a reasonable fear to have. It's also just made me resent a lot of my symptoms, I used to not really care before this stuff started blowing up, but now I'm just ashamed. I hate it so much
I've seen a lot of people on tiktok say "self diagnosis is valid! It doesn't hurt anyone" but that's not true. Many actual autistic people ( or adhd, bpd, whatever ) are not taken seriously because of this. It's so bad in fact, that I've seen many people who are autistic leave comments saying they don't like it, and people who probably agree with their points will reply to them accusing them of faking. I saw someone say they don't like when people fake or self diagnose, and someone literally replied to them with something like "you're not autistic, I work with an autistic person and he can't even speak, you'd hang your head in shame if you knew what it was really like." And it's so annoying, because people wouldn't reply shit like that if it wasn't for these tiktokers
I don't think everyone who does this is actively faking a disorder, I think many of them are just led to believe they have it because of the amount of videos that are like " if you do these 5 things you might have autism " and everything in the video is a super vague thing that many non autistic people do. Plus if that's literally your entire FYP, of course you're gonna start to believe it eventually. The app is very harmful and it's convincing a bunch of people that they have a bunch of different illnesses. I deleted tiktok a long time ago, but I'm 18, so I spent a couple of my teen years on there, and it's genuinely insane how much of a trend this stuff is. people are really making autism and mental illness into something "quirky", the same people who used to bully us are now faking this shit
Before I used to not care about being autistic, but all of these self diagnosed people have made me scared that nobody Will believe me when I say I'm diagnosed, which I have seen many times, so I think that's a reasonable fear to have. It's also just made me resent a lot of my symptoms, I used to not really care before this stuff started blowing up, but now I'm just ashamed. I hate it so much