Anonymous OP 1w

Kind of tracked when I noticed her acting this was to when she was told that and realized she never had known overstimulation before, never had these reactions to the same stimuli at all. I get it can change over time, trust me I do, but it was like 0 to 100. It genuinely makes me look like a terrible person if I don’t give her my stuff when I need it/am using it bc she’ll loudly announce being autistic and I’ll get glares. She knows I’ve dealt with it since I was a kid, she’s known me 3/?

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Anonymous OP 1w

But idk what to do. If this gives people any idea, I was diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, depression, and my therapist believes I have fawn response due to trauma I experienced. All of these I was diagnosed at 21 as therapy wasn’t an option before and another round of testing was recommended as autism is suspected, but I decided I didn’t need to spend that money as I know what works/helps me without a label (though I never tell people I’m autistic, I just say I have issues with overstimulation)*end

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Anonymous #2 1w

It irks me so much. I don’t openly say I have those issues. Only my close/long time friends know, I kept it as FAR from social media as possible bc with all the fakes I know I wouldn’t be taken seriously. That’s what happened with fidget cubes and spinners. People would just have them to haste them and they got banned a lot of schools for those who needed them

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Anonymous OP 1w

I also want to clarify I wasn’t talking about you at all. Reading all of your post made me think about this and yes the needing fidgets when you don’t actually need this is also an issue.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Yeah you’re good

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Anonymous #3 1w

She tools some things without asking :(

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Anonymous OP 1w

*tool And she is 100% capable of asking, even if she was autistic, she has had absolutely no problem ever asking for things in the past instead of taking them. And I’m not saying she’s not autistic however she was not actually diagnosed. She just claims that she is bc she was told she had symptoms (these symptoms, conveniently lineup with ADHD symptoms, which she does have diagnosed and has had diagnosed since she was a kid)

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Anonymous OP 1w

And again I get that things can change overtime, but I know she’s capable of asking for things

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Anonymous #5 1w

-her own version of your tools so you can exist without her needing your essentials 🫶🏼

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Anonymous #5 1w

I will say, she was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, and I think at this point she should be able to handle herself. But people say I sound like a bad person when I say that.

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Anonymous OP 1w

No. I’m multi-LD with audhd. It doesn’t matter what she or anyone else thinks. Even if you got your tools for fun and didn’t need them for aids at all, they’d still be yours and if you said you didn’t want to let her borrow them then that would be that. No one gets to use their disability to cross boundaries and frankly, infantilizing her by making it about her disability rather than that she’s manipulating you because she wants to is ableist. And you can tell any onlookers with opinions—

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Anonymous OP 1w

— exactly that, that you know this person is smart and capable and that she has her own aids. She doesn’t need to be coddled and neither do you. You have your aids to get through the day for a reason, and tbh there is probably a diagnosis for you out there -if YOU want to pursue it- but whether or not you do your aids are yours. She can use hers.

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Anonymous #4 1w

Part of me wants to get a diagnosis for these situations but it’s just expensive and doesn’t do anything to benefit me. People close to me I explain the overstimulation, my diagnosis of ADHD, depression, and anxiety and then I explain that drs believe I could have bi polar depression and have suspicions on autism. But I mostly tell them that last part to help explain certain behaviors and that yes, my doctors know of them

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Anonymous OP 1w

You don’t need to explain anything to anyone. Honestly if the symptoms fit your experience stop saying “well I don’t have a diagnosis but…” just say “I have…” all a diagnostic will do is check boxes and your experience and your day to day would be the biggest diagnostic feature anyway. Oh and if you REALLY want a piece of paper to confirm your experience, many of those you listed are considered medical diagnoses. Talk to an MD who knows you and your experiences and ask.

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Anonymous #4 1w

I mean, I don’t wanna claim smth I’m not diagnosed with

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Anonymous OP 1w

An MD can diagnose some disabilities and disorders, if they ask for more evidence then connect them with a psychologist or therapist if you have one. As long as you give permission it’s not a HIPPA violation if they talk to each other about you. They’ll give you the paperwork. They can also give you paperwork that should work for your schools office of disabilities at least for verifying accommodations and the need for things like reduced distraction testing.

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Anonymous #4 1w

Sometimes the schools can be assholes though about needing educational evaluations rather than just providing accommodations. If you do ever want to do it and your school has a psychology practicum program (masters/psy-D/PHD) they also probably have on campus therapist trainees overseen by a psychologist and do educational evaluations. They’ll still probably charge you a few hundred dollars for the paperwork but it won’t be the thousand+ you’ll find elsewhere.

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Anonymous OP 1w

If it’s your experience the diagnostic testing (which I’ve done a lot of in my life) is just boring mind exhausting shit that amounts to an expensive peice of paperwork that means nothing outside of education. Your personal experience weights a solid 60% on that diagnostic anyway.

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Anonymous OP 1w

You don’t need an educational evaluation for ADHD, anxiety, BPD, or autism. If your doctors are saying you have those or any combination of that, that’s a diagnosis. Get the paperwork. Get the accommodations. Tell any assholes who say you don’t deserve it to fuck off.

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