I hate my autism diagnosis

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What were you misdiagnosed with?

Depression, social anxiety, and oppositional defiance disorder. I got diagnosed with the last one due to being truant at school all the time (I can't believe that's all it takes to get a diagnoses like that). They sent me to a alternative school for bad kids in the community and it was pretty much like a jail (they even had jail bars over the windows). They personally had to pick me up from my home in the morning and drop me off at the front door and a person was waiting for me when I got there and had to "make sure I got into the school and didn't run away". When I got inside I had to get patted down (I hate when people touch me), and they also put a metal detecter wand over my whole body. I wasn't allowed to take a cell phone, snacks, gum, or anything else to school with me, which meant I wasn't allowed to bring any of my comfort items to school (I use to have a favorite pen that I'd bring to school) and I wasn't allowed to eat my comfort food items because they supplied me food (which was gross and couldn't get myself to eat some days so I went home hungry). I wasn't allowed to wear my comfort clothing which was a hoodie (because people have tried choking other students with the hoodie before). Whenever I needed to use the restroom, a teachers aid had to come with me and I had to sign in with my name and time and the teacher had to observe me in there, and when I finished I had to sign out with the time and the teacher had to sign their name saying that I didn't do anything bad in there. I had a teacher who use to talk down to me there even though I had the best grades, she thought I was cheating and would have to sit next to me during tests and her breath was always torture to me and I couldn't focus. I wasn't even cheating, I was just smart. I could go on and on about this horrible school and this horrible treatment, but that would take a while. Several people were arrested at my school because they would punch teachers in the face while I was just the shy kid who was just there because of being truant. I never got in trouble at school growing up, I don't even have a criminal record or even a speeding ticket (knock on wood) and yet they treated me like a bad kid. It was awful.

That is awful. I only made it to school about 2 days a week because it was too overwhelming for me, but the teachers all turned a blind eye because I was managing well enough academically. I just hope The Powers That Be get better at identifying autistic kids, and not letting so many of us slip through the cracks.

Devil, I agree that it sucks to have a label slapped on you that's the wrong one. Soccer was labeled ODD (with horrific outcome), and I was labeled 'gifted' which put so much pressure on me that I felt constantly hopeless and suicidal, and eventually broke. If autism is the wrong label for you, I hope that one day you can set it aside and have a better understanding of what you're really dealing with.

Here is a solution, stop telling people you have that diagnoses. Problem solved. No one is going to know unless you tell them. I am not sure how old you are or if you are still in high school but once you are an adult and on your own you don't need to tell anyone about it and they will never know.