Autism, A.d.h.d., Anxiety: Can a Diagnosis Make You Better?
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The article explores whether receiving a diagnosis for conditions like autism, ADHD, and anxiety can lead to improvement, sparking discussion on the complexities of diagnosis and personal identity.
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Even if I didn’t get the chance to take meds I wouldn’t have traded it for the world.
What it should not be - is a excuse to park dysfunction into the public, which has certain standards everyone should be able to uphold. You do not get to be rude, because smalltalk exhausts you- you get to avoid smalltalk while not being rude and society will accept that.
A diagnosis is not a doctors prescription to some limited form of sociopathy, that excuses you permanently from helping to uphold civil society and contributing to humanity.Its also not a invitation to hold yourself or others hostage, threatening self-harm or compliance to social rules as goods of trade.