I'll stop self-diagnosing when my self-diagnoses stop being correct
like obviously it's good to get a doctor to take a look at stuff if you can but I am 4 for fucking 4 on my conditions so far stop trying to act like you have access to mystical arcane knowledge that would fry my mortal brain because you went to psych school
that is not even mentioning how often doctors are stupid and wrong
doctors just google shit as often as us
after a lot of research, I decided that I have ADHD. the diagnostic process for that was me explaining it to a psychiatrist who went, "yeah it seems pretty obvious".
when I switched from one form of a medication to another, my doctor and I both googled the dose conversion. I came up with a better source, which is great because that spared me from getting prescribed 2/3rds of what I needed for months + having to run the dose increase gauntlet (they do not like doing that) to get back to where I started.
when I brought up autism, that same doctor argued with me and told me I "didn't seem autistic" and, when pressed, admitted that she didn't know much about autism.
I learned how to make eye contact in my late teens, I have severe textural aversions, history of public meltdowns, etc. I don't intend to seek an autism diagnosis because it can only harm me.
I'll stop when I stop being right.
not to mention they’re using fucking ai now just to “take notes”

















