I've just accepted it

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[–] 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Bigger issue for me is how goddamn hard it is to get a diagnoses.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    If you're genuinely pretty happy and have a good life. Don't worry too much about it unless it's important to you.

    That being said. Yeah. That's the exception and not the rule. It's usually looking for help and some understanding. Unfortunately, that diagnosis, if it's not just "for you" will not change much if the people in your life are not understanding. I think surrounding yourself or finding people that accept you is just far more important than a diagnosis. Yeah, your doc might agree with you. You might have someone you pay to talk to you. But, being an undiagnosed adult that is just trying to adult; with people that are used to you with all your masking and coping mechanism. Well, it's just not really helpful beyond knowing something you already know is true.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Two reasons are reduced course load in uni while still full time (yet another reason why non-free post secondary is awful) and ~$100-200 per month for 'disability' payments from the government.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    Have you looked? Personally, even filtering for one that took my medicaid insurance, I was able to get a psychological evaluation within 3 months of when I first statrted actually looking. I had delayed because I heard how difficult it was only to have not be difficult at all and wishing I had done it earlier.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I'm in Canada and the only way to get diagnosed as an adult is to wait five years for an appointment or pay $3000. I will probably have an appointment with a psychiatrist soon, but that's not exactly what I want.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    What was your search process? Mine is going online, looking for people that do it, find out they don't do it for adults and/or only take private insurance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I had no idea it was even worse in countries with universal healthcare. For me I used the website for my insurance to search for places that already take them, plus running a online search for specifically adult autism evaluations. I had to email quite a few to make sure they took my insurance and/or evaluated adults.

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