Is there a way to get undiagnosed?

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I feel like I have 2 options right now.

Option 1:
I feel like going to the hospital, getting all records of it erased, moving to a school across the country, starting a new life, using the memory thing from Men in Black on all my family, and changing my name to Cletus Allister.

Option 2:
Spending my whole life on developing a time machine, go back and time and give myself today the time machine, so I can go back in time and get undiagnosed and for fun stop John Wilkes Boothe from killing Abraham Lincoln, convincing Kurt Cobain out of suicide, and poisoning Hitler.

Option 1 sounds more plausible and should be quicker. What do you guys think?

At least where I live all records are erased after some years if you move to a different city. Hospitals can't ask for your medical journals from another hospital without your consent.

If I wasn't dependant on government money I would scrap my diagnosis hard. Soon enough I'm hoping to win the lottery, I've been renewing the same coupons for five years and if I'm lucky one day I will win. When that happens I'll buy a house someplace else, preferably a different country like Germany, UK or France, and let the diagnosis burn.

I think you should go for option 1, btw.

I also had AS diagnosed at a young age, and nothing good came of it.

I envy lottery winners. Actually, that's what I should do. Buy more lottery tickets. It's my only hope.

Why would you like to get undiagnosed?
I'm about to get diagnosed, and I feel that it will help me later in life, so that's why I'm asking.
Am I wrong? Is it better to just leave it alone?

It's not the diagnosis that's the problem, it's the way I am limited. It makes it hard to earn a living. I dunno if you should get a diagnosis or not. Some would say no, some yes. It has to be your decision, ultimately. There's pros and cons for and against.

I would never buy a lottery ticket personally. I think they are a tax on the poor.

Actually I never gamble in general, I just get too stressed out and hate the idea a LOT.

How can you be limited by your diagnosis? As long as you don't reveal it to everyone, you should be fine.
Do you mean being limited by your symptoms? If so, that's understandable. But I don't see how the diagnosis can hurt you.

Yeah but people who are desperate buy lottery tickets and hope it's a way out. A guy in Illinois won five million dollars six years ago and his financial problems are over.

Mathgirl, it's not just a diagnosis, it's all the other things that mean it's what you have. It would be better if I could find a job and earn a living easily the way others do.

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I love completely luck based gambling but I hate stuff like poker.

Unless you're going to get needed help with something because of your diagnosis, you might be better off without it. It might bring a risk of ostrasization.
To the OP, what's wrong? Why the despair to get rid of it?

Yes, hence why I call it a tax on the poor. Also lotto winnings do not make one happier or solve financial problems necessarily. There have been a number of bankruptcies and suicides in lotto winners.

Yeah but I know for a fact I could be blissfully happy after winning millions in the lottery.

Same here. All my problems aside from aging would be solved. And with that kind of money I might be able to buy advanced rejuvenation procedures in 20-30 years when/if they become available.

I picture myself as a hundred year old in a 20-year olds' body, sitting in a large and minimalistic but luxuriously decorated, dimly lit room, alone. Dressed in tailor made clothes, having a cup of green tea and staring out over a panorama view of a futuristic night city in the year 2090, thinking "this is where I want to be, it was worth those years of pain, I can do anything. The world is mine".

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Cool, I know the odds are small but I hope you win then I have no idea if winning the lotto would make me happier, personally.

Also sorry to have hijacked the topic. I am curious now (as someone who is still considering whether I should get a diagnosis) why some people have had no good come from a diagnosis?

With that kind of money you can buy your own business be your own boss then you have nothing to worry about. No more rejection at job interviews. I would find the right business for me. I would invest.

Like all smart bosses do, I would hire a good people person to run it for me.

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MathGirl - diagnosis making it onto official records can be bad for you

For example, I know that if I tell the government about it to claim disability payments, this will affect me later on in the attempting to get a loan/mortgage from the banks in the future. Even though I have a perfect credit record, 2 jobs and earn too much money at the moment to receive any payments, they could turn me down for being who I am. It is not worth the discrimination to have it on your records unless you absolutely need to (ie things are falling apart)