Should I go ahead with this self diagnosis?

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In this case "can´t" just means "not able to - professionally"

It would help to describe characteristics from childhood because the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria expect that "[s]ymptoms must be present in the early developmental period (but may not become fully manifest until social demands exceed limited capacities, or may be masked by learned strategies in later life)." So, those characteristics (however slight) that the adult individual can accurately determine (with or without assistance from parents of older family members) from about ages five to 11 years (anecdotally, some researchers suggest "the first two years of life") would be helpful for a more accurate diagnosis.

I have several clear descriptions of characteristics from my early childhood memories including idiosyncratic speech (neologisms) at ages two to four years.

But, maybe I am misreading the DSM-5.

And to add to that and make more distinctions, many cases of Childhood Disintegraive Disorder often comes with another degenerative condition or injury. For example, a 6 year old Ashkenazi Jew who suddenly regresses into Childhood Disintegrative Disorder is revealed to also have Juvenille Onset Tay-Sachs disease, an atypical form of Tay-Sachs disease, a nuerodegenerative condition that destroys nerve and brain cells. In other words, the Juvenille Onset Tay-Sachs disease is what caused the 6 year old to regress into Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. So that 6 year old has BOTH Childhood Disintegrative Disorder AND Juvenille Onset Tay-Sachs Disease. So with all the distictions being said, if what I had at age 2 was really Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, I would of:A)died a few years later from an accompanying nuerodenerative disease similar to Tay-Sachs AND/OR B) Presented like Harley Shefflied, a severley autistic guy in the video link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4PTf7LgsIE and in the picture below: