What is more important to you?

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prillix
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04 Sep 2008, 7:22 pm

Knowing your exact diagnosis

Or

Just knowing that there is a reason as to why you are different, and that you are not the only one

What is more important?

Keith
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04 Sep 2008, 7:33 pm

Knowing the diagnosis... If people don't believe me or say I'm faking it, I can produce proof

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04 Sep 2008, 7:47 pm

prillix wrote:

Knowing your exact diagnosis

Or

Just knowing that there is a reason as to why you are different, and that you are not the only one

What is more important?

I didn't know for sure that there was a reason for me being different UNTIL I knew my diagnosis. They went hand in hand for me.

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04 Sep 2008, 10:29 pm

Right now one of the most important things to me is to truly find out and get a diagnosis.

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04 Sep 2008, 10:34 pm

Knowing there's a reason, and that there are other people going through the same thing.

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05 Sep 2008, 1:53 am

Knowing that there's a reason that I'm different and that I'm not the only one.

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05 Sep 2008, 4:28 am

Knowing the diagnosis because it contains also knowing the reason - you are diagnosed with X so it's obvious there must be others like you - if people exhibiting traits of X didn't exist, coining a name for X couldn't take place.

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05 Sep 2008, 4:33 am

knowing I'm not the only one is most important for me

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05 Sep 2008, 5:29 am

Knowing that there are others out there to relate to.

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05 Sep 2008, 5:43 am

Keith wrote:

Knowing the diagnosis... If people don't believe me or say I'm faking it, I can produce proof

What difference will it make if they DO know ?

I doubt they'll make any meaningful allowances.
And even if they do, you'll be lumped in with 'ret*ds' and treated accordingly.

I try to fit in rather than standing out even more.
Only my very closest know that I'm a spectrumite.

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05 Sep 2008, 5:45 am

I think those for whom a diagnosis is important, need it for THEMSELVES - almost as though they can't believe they have it unless it's in writing.

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05 Sep 2008, 10:33 am

The diagnosis is for me.

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05 Sep 2008, 10:39 am

Just knowing why I'm different and that I'm not alone. That way, I can celebrate my differences.

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05 Sep 2008, 10:40 am

lionesss wrote:

The diagnosis is for me.

OK.
But you'd be just the same without it.

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05 Sep 2008, 10:45 am

MemberSix wrote:

lionesss wrote:

The diagnosis is for me.

OK.
But you'd be just the same without it.

Yes you would but what is wrong with getting a professional opinion? I'm no doctor if you are, it is good to have your own suspicions backed up by someone who has a lot of experience with hundreds of different cases.

If you are so supremely confident in your own self diagnosis don't go it's that simple.

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05 Sep 2008, 10:55 am

Understanding what's going on is the most important to me, regardless of what word the medical profession chooses to put on it. Understanding the traits is useful without knowing the word 'autism', but the word 'autism' is not useful without understanding the traits.

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