How is armchair diagnosing not against the rules?

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What usually happens is a sharing of information freely and giving people the requested signposts to develop their self knowledge. How can giving feedback to a person about their ASD traits even be considered armchair diagnosing

Well that OP has already been diagnosed so it's impossible to armchair diagnose. We can only armchair undiagnose.

if OP is still here, i think she should know that i've brought this up with the rest of the mods quite a while ago, and there's a strong consensus saying that it's a ridiculous request to add this to the WP rules, and that kind of discourse shouldn't be something the staff are concerned with.


just for the sake of closure.

There are several subreddits on Reddit that do not allow people to ask for a diagnoses.

i wonder why that is the case.

But there are diagnosed members saying they like loud music or loud trains or concerts. Did you just undiagnose them too?

Shrinks have also diagnosed Trump.

Hey, hey, hey. Just because I have been so-called diagnosed by so-called professionals for a so-called psychological-condition of so-called Asperger's «Syndrome» (what a derogatory sounding word by the way) does not mean that I actually believe in the so-called industry. For all we know the whole ASD thing could be a fad.

They kept on repeating : «There's nothing wrong with you; but you have Asperger's Syndrome» (liek wut))