It's one of the reasons I haven't considered getting an autism diagnosis. I'm pretty sure I have it, but even talking with the doctor I get my ADHD medication from she agreed that while it can be helpful to "know", there isn't much else outside of that.

It's not like my ADHD where I can get a prescription that helps me manage the symptoms. If I just work on the assumption I have it and use that to process things and know when I'm getting overwhelmed and how to deal with it, and also stop masking all the time, then I get the same benefit that I would from an official diagnosis without opening myself up to more discrimination or fascist targeting.

Between being queer and having ADHD I already have enough things they want to throw me into gas chambers for.

I understand your fears. I live in the US. My son is autistic. My youngest brother is autistic. Both I and my youngest sister have ADHD.

We were all diagnosed as children and my parents could only afford to help the worse off of us (my youngest brother) so that's where their time, effort, and money went.

I struggled for years. My sister struggled for years. Because there was no support for us.

But I want you to understand that (as someone who suspects they also have Autism), the support for children with autism and ADHD far outweighs what is available for adults, and it might be more beneficial to him to give him support now than to allow him to suffer in some aspects without it.

The support he's already getting likely won't cover everything.

I would fight for your son and my son and all the others who could likely be affected by the current regime. Others will too. There's so many more of us than people think and there's power in that.

At the end of the day your child and his care is your business. I'm sure you've thought this through a million times.

I just wanted to express that there's a downside to it.

Can your child not get diagnosed and just not tell others if it doesn’t want to? I mean only because the child has the diagnosis doesn’t mean that other children or teachers or whatever need to know, does it?