Getting rid of autism diagnoses?

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Please forgive me if I am being insensitive in any way. I don't know you personally but I have read a number of your posts and I just can't imagine that you would enjoy being in the military. I understand the desire you may have to serve your country but somehow you don't strike me as the type of person who would handle the rigors of the military very well. Now, of course since I don't know you personally I am just guessing but that is just the impression I get from you.

I know the military is something of a dream for you, but you have two businesses, right?

I guess your best bet at getting your diagnosis removed is working at those businesses until you can pass as NT for long enough to convince a psychologist that you were mis-diagnosed. I would guess your history of requiring extra support would still make that tricky though.

What do these two businesses involve, you could develop these instead.

Otherwise theres a lot here to work on, uh, you do seem autististic, regardless of the presenting symptoms.

I dont think the army is not the best way to go, based on your post hystory. Even with an interview with army officials, they only have to look and listen to you and how to conduct yourself and they would already know you are not suitable.

An alternative though... you could join a corps that caters for your website programming skills. Maybe similar to me if i ever desired to be in the army... I have skills that is useable for Communications and other Information or Security army protocals. I cannot, by any means, handle a real gun, be able to kill or bond with other solidiers.

The diagnosis label is easily removed if you can manage not to show enough symptoms anymore to qualify for the diagnosis.

EDIT: It should be noted, that your diagnosis and former diagnosis will still be recorded by the institution who gave you the diagnosis and any other institution that formally was told about it.

anyone?

I want to get rid of my diagnosis too. I keep hearing terrifying things on the internet about people with Autism being thrown an asylum at some point in years to come, and so I want the ASD diagnosis off my medical records so that they can't track me down and throw me into one of those, because I am not going to have that happen to me when the rest of my family and friends can go on living for being NTs. Besides, I feel I don't have Asperger's. I feel I'm just a sensitive, introverted NT with an anxiety/stress disorder, some OCD, and prone to depression (which I'm on medication for, which is helping). I also feel I have ADHD because I have been researching a lot about ADHD and everything I've read about ADHD describes me a lot. But I can read body language and other social cues, and I know how to lie and I can feel and express empathy and all that kind of thing, so I don't feel like an Aspie at all. Usually people guess that I have ADD or ADHD anyway, but nobody's ever guessed that I have Asperger's. I want to change the diagnosis.