Will this hinder a diagnosis?

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I am currently in the process of getting a diagnosis. I am pretty sure I am on the spectrum and I have found someone that will do the assessment for about $300 locally.

The one thing I am worried about is that I am an ABA therapist and work with children on the spectrum. Doing this job for the last 10 months has really solidified my suspicions about myself. I am struggling with a lot of things with my job (executive function things but also social aspects with colleagues and with my kids I work with) but I worry that the therapist will question me if I am able to work and help others with autism.

So will it make her less likely to believe or diagnose me correctly? Is anyone else here an ABA therapist or something similar?

I'm a math tutor for autistic children. I work with them better than their NT teachers in a lot of ways because of my autism.

The therapist of the Autism Spectrum Counseling Center of our local Family Guidance Center is ASD and ADHD herself. I think she had her diagnosis before she started counseling folks on the spectrum, but she was 40ish when diagnosed, so I'm not sure (one of those who realixed she had ASD after her child was dignosed with autism. She counsels with both adults and children. I wasn't able to stay with her, before of a so-called "conflict of interest" situation with my former employer, but I would certainly think it makes her a much better counselor.

I don't think it would, especially if you explain that this experience is what made you suspect that you're on the spectrum.

I am a therapist and work very well with children/adolescents on the spectrum. It's a population that I am truly able to understand in a way that I can't with my other non-spectrum clients.

I don't think that it would.

I really wish people would stop digging up years old advice threads.