Are you all 'diagnosic' by a doctor. or also self diagnosic?

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In-between.

See, I'm a healthy person, and I am going to live on my own soon.
So my parents didn't want me to pay extra for my autism.

Instead, they took me to a clinic outside of our health insurance, and paid for out-of-pocket diagnoses/treatment.

Legally, I don't have autism, but I have been diagnosed by a legal doctor that I have it.

I think that's spot on!! - I absolutely agree with you - and from now on that's exactly the terminology I'll follow.

I don't usually like being a grammar Nazi, but seriously. What does this mean?

Not to mention, this thread is from 3 years ago.

Probably: Were you self-diagnosed or diagnosed by a doctor or both?.....but that's just my guess.

Well, in that case, I am self diagnosed. I don't need a mental health professional to tell me what is extremely obvious.

Self-diagnosed ... and then diagnosed by a clinical psychologist specialising in ASDs.

I'd like to be diagnosed professionally but I simply can't afford it. I don't have insurance so it'd be over $1,000 for a professional to diagnose me. Someday, but not anytime soon.

I'm self-diagnosed and I'm not sure whether I need to get diagnosed professionally. I'm pretty sure I have Asperger's anyway.

I was self-diagnosed (but quiet about it) from about 2004 until 2011. In March this year, I was diagnosed with Aspergers. Unfortunately the place I went to was not as official as I thought (I didn't research it ahead of time, and I just assumed they would give me what I asked/paid for). As some other psychologists do although it is not completely official, they just diagnosed me based on the screening questions. I was unable to get a real report out of them. A couple weeks ago I did the ADI-R and the ADOS with a psychologist and get my results tomorrow morning. I will be shocked it is comes back that I am not on the spectrum. I am expecting to be diagnosed with classic autism unless, for some reason, she doesn't diagnose adults with classic autism.

What do you mean, legally you do not have it? Does that mean that, although you were diagnosed with it, there is no record of it anywhere or something? When you said your parents don't want you to pay for autism I took it as pay=money, but I was just thinking that maybe you were implying they don't want you to suffer from having it on your record or something? I'm confused! I think it works differently in Canada. I am professionally diagnosed, but I don't think the government knows about it. Or maybe they do.

I was self diagnosed but there were enough as*holes on WrongPlanet who said I was NT when they did not like a post I made or did not agree with them it made made enough to get a diagnosis.

That means that I do not have it on any health records that they could use for school, work, or health insurance. Thus, they can't legally use it against or for me. The reason it is paying is because if I had it on my health insurance records, then I might have to pay more. So, I guess you could say that if I didn't want to pay more for a preexisting condition.....I legally don't have it. I don't know much about how it works here...I just know that pre-existing conditions cost more, therefore, this cannot be proved legally. That being said, the doctors were legal, it is just off the records. Make sense?

By a doctor.

I wasn't 'Diagnosic' I was diagnosed.

I have Asperger's Syndrome, mild Dyscalculia, Hyperlexia, High-Functioning Autism, Foreign Accent Syndrome and just a bit o' pure weirdness.

Aspergers and HFA are different!
I should know, I've had 2 diagnoses of HFA, and only 1 of aspergers (and that was when I was younger).

I know, which is why I posted them both.

Or do you mean they can't be diagnosed together?

Confused. :\