would u be able to accept a different diagnoses

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personally, i used to think i wouldn't, but, ill accept anything that makes enough sense. but i dont think i could handle an NT diagnoses, tired of people thinking im normal and not seeing my issues

how about you?

I enjoy turtles quite a bit.

No, I really probably could take it, but I wouldn't like having another diagnosis.

I'd understand, but I'd rather just have ASD and nothing else as a diagnosis.

Turtles are pretty great!

Why would I care?

A medical label be a medical label.

I would like to have another diagnosis. I'm sick of people only seeing the ASD. Even if I am correctly diagnosed, it isn't my main problem and I deserve the same treatments that NTs can get.

Autism describes most of how I experience things (in language).

I think I would care because NTs are so foreign to me and being an NT would just enhance not even understand myself. and it would make me even more confused to find then I'm an NT.


It might break my brain

I was diagnosed with Aspergers at the age of six, but truth be told a diagnosis of HFA may not be too far off, as I did have somewhat of a language delay. I believe I started speaking when I was three, though apparently I didn't talk on a regular basis until I was four and a half, according to my parents. Whenever I did speak however, I would speak in full sentences. As well, it seems that around the time I turned six my vocabulary made an enormous leap, from being around the level of a 3-4 year old, to that of an average 12 year old. I believe this may have had something to do with dealing with the pressure of moving to a new town, and with attending Kindergarten (which I was enrolled in twice; I'm not exactly sure when I started my first year, but I finished my second year when I was 6).

As for an NT diagnosis, while I have adopted some more NT-ish mannerisms and behaviors over the years, mainly just as a way of adapting to the NT world, the fact remains that I am most definitely on the ASD spectrum, and that anyone who claims that I am not has no idea what the hell they are talking about. My sensory sensitivities alone pretty much scream ASD, never mind my behavioral differences, my literal thought processes, my obsessive interests, and of course my emotional differences.

It better make more sense then the one I have which makes a lot of sense. With research and better understand I do see the possibility of a diagnoses that makes better sense happening.

No.

When professionals use other labels, as nice as they are to me and as good is what they say and do may feel right then, in the long run, I feel blamed for what I think are minor social errors.

With an ASD diagnosis, when I feel lost or confused, when I don't know what to do or how, I get help that is practical like a suggestion for words to use instead of that look that says the person cannot even begin to relate to how strange what I said or did and who I am seems to them. And I am SO tired of seeing people give me that look when I am trying my very best to fit in, do things right, and avoid causing others to be uncomfortable.

I don't need or want to feel I am weird to the professionals, which is inevitably what happens when they have not used this diagnosis. Not at first, but eventually.

I see no reason to seek a different diagnosis, so I stop there.

Noggin *headbutt* duuuuude.

I would have voted "If it fit, but that's especially unlikely, because I've even been tested for other things, and this is the only thing that fits", but then you mentioned turtles...

Turtles are great. Are you meaning just turtle-turtles, or turtles/tortoises/terrapins?

I don't even care anymore, so yes, I'd accept any diagnosis as long as I actually fit the criteria.

I suppose I would, but I can't think what it would be. I have been diagnosed with other things as well as Aspergers that seem to go with Aspergers.

If you know what I mean.

And besides I really couldn't be bothered going through the whole process of diagnosis. I think I'm ok as I am for now.

I like turtles too