What difference does a diagnosis make?

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I'm a black or white thinker and I like things to be official, I have a high demand for closure in general and a diagnosis in personal principal or idea does not cut it for me; this is what why I was flooded with anxiety and self analyzing during the 3 weeks assessment leading up to the diagnosis, a negative diagnosis would've denied me that closure and I would've had intense cognitive dissonance between the diagnosis and the body of evidence that I am aspergian. What I anticipated in a positive diagnosis was a clear picture about who I was, and a clear explanation for my social struggles growing up and today, and ironically it took me months after a positive diagnosis for me to accept it and ultimately have those things; like many of you have alluded to, there is a feeling that lifts off your shoulder, "it wasn't all my fault!" My secondary goal was to validate the usefulness of aspergers help resources including Attwood's book and a reputable therapist with AS expertise in CBT, secondary only because of the magnitude of the emotions and self acceptance that go into the validation of diagnosis.

What they said above is how it has helped me. For you since you have done some of the research a professional diagnosis would get rid of the worry that your conclusion was a result of confirmation bias.

If you want an official diagnosis, a specialist in Adult Autism Spectrum Disorders is a must.

Whether you go the self or professional route additional research on hyper and hypo sensory sensitivities and Executive Dysfunction and the various ways they present in Autistics and effect thinking is needed for anything resembling full understanding

if you need help or a benifit from the goverment, you need a diagnoses to recieve it