Any other groups that are more accepting of self-diagnosis?

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I like $10 words in the same way that I prefer "10mm boxed-end wrench" to "adjustable wrench".

Why intentionally make communication more uncertain than it already is?

Some people may be good or bad at understanding big words, science jargon, idioms, sports terms, emotional words, social-emotional ideas, science ideas, cat-related things, etc. I don't think that people should avoid using big words or talking about social-emotional ideas or cat-related things just because others might not understand big words or social-emotional ideas or cat-related things.

When I use $10 words my posts usually end up gigantic, and that is my only real concern.

It depends how much effort I want to put in. Big descriptive words are never the first to arrive in my mind. I only use them if I really need to express a point of view (which on a forum is regular), but it takes me longer to post because I have to think of them or even use Google to find such words if they escaped my mind.

I used to not do this to the extent that I now do and nobody read my posts because they were longer than the Wall of China.

So essentially when I write a post, it's easy to do, but making it concise is not, because I can't get the exact meaning I want to without access to a vast expanse of vocab, and that doesn't come naturally to me, because I tend to write/talk way too fast/much when I'm on a roll. I guess I get that from my mum.

Nothing wrong with using $10 words if they provide at least $10 worth of information.

At the risk of being the only one on the other side of a heated conversation I think we should be a bit suspicious of self-diagnosis. Self-diagnosis is a powerful part of self-understanding. It requires recognizing some things in yourself that you may not like; however, self-diagnosis also opens up the way for trying to explain something (why am I lonely? Why don't a get along with others?) and you can lead yourself down the wrong path. I know before my official diagnosis I had self-diagnosed myself with some other things. When I received my official Aspie diagnosis I asked my psychologist about the others. According to the checklists I had found I met everything and I had incorporated these as part of my identity. I KNEW they were me, but they were not. I had to accept my own diagnosis and I had to accept that some of the things I was doing were not a product of ASD or anything else; it was my own behavior I needed to change. There is a reason that people pay psychologists 1000s of dollars to get a diagnosis. Self-diagnosis can be a key and a clue, but it is not 100% accurate. I would be interested to see how accurate it was though as I had considered that I may have ASD before my diagnosis. I'm not saying that self-diagnosis is a bad thing; I'm just saying that if you are self-diagnosed you may have ASD, or you may have lots of the signs of ASD but these may in fact be due to something else. As a community of Aspies and Auties though, this is an area we should be discussing. If you are self-diagnosed though, I would still absolutely welcome you here.

I don't think there are many people who criticize the importance of research. But there's definitely need for criticism of specific studies, because there are a lot of really bad studies out there. Worse yet is the way many of those are twisted and used to push agendas that deserve even more criticism.

LOL...I've never denied that specific studies must be criticized. There's a lot of snake oil out there.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/63699327 ... ir-results

Yes there sure is. This is just a tiny look at a much bigger problem.