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Where did the whole long thread (stigma against self-diagnosed aspies) vanished? I posted a reply last night and now in the morning I would have liked to see if anyone else replied, but the whole thread is gone.

Moderators removed it because of the tendency to foment a lot of negativity toward self-diagnosed members.

Some posters did show negativity towards the self-diagnosed, but don’t they all the time – at least between the lines if not always explicitly. Therefore this discussion would have been more than needed. Now by removing the thread moderators at the same time removed all the counterarguments (including mine).

This discussion was important not just for all the self-diagnosed feeling stigmatized here, but for all of those who got their precious paper and now feel they are in position to judge all those who are in the exactly same position they were before. Remember that people with a childhood diagnosis are a small minority here.

One can easily have aspergers without ever having being diagnosed.

People have just thought that was who you were (and in some sense they were right) - that might be the simple reason you were never diagnosed with anything. Not thought there might be a deeper explanation of the social awkwardness, shyness etc.

I think people have quite a good idea about how they are. Including whether they are remarkably different (for instance because of aspergers).

I don't understand why people get so worked up about having a diagnosis or not

You're letting other people/society define you by giving you a label that says 'You're not like the normal people'

Diagnosis gave me a major identity crisis because up until diagnosis at age 37 I'd assumed I was 'normal' but was just having to put up with a fair number of people being unreasonably nasty towards me.

Then diagnosis effectively said 'You aren't one of the normal people' and this made me very angry because not only had I been right in that people had been nasty to me but that there was now a reason for it and it was a reason in which I had a disability, so their nastiness was doubly unfair and even more unreasonable. So I'd been battling on regardless of the 'reason' before diagnosis and after diagnosis became radicalised into a person who utterly loathes anyone who'd unfairly pick on vulnerable people.

None of this helped me develop further as a person - it sent me backwards in my opinion by creating deep prejudice within me.

Labelling does not help people in my opinion; it stigmatises and separates you off from wanting to work towards the common good. It ghettoises people.

How anyone could willingly want to put themselves into this position (I never sought a diagnosis) is beyond me.

Disappearing vs locking?

Why are some problematic threads left visable, but get the padlock, while others get totally 'disappeared'?

Just curious.