Mental Health on Yik Yak | does anyone have experience with autism testing as a potentially high masking woman? My therapist who thinks I’m a high masker wants me to get tested but said it might be difficult to get diagnosed because I mask really well

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Mental Health 1w

does anyone have experience with autism testing as a potentially high masking woman? My therapist who thinks I’m a high masker wants me to get tested but said it might be difficult to get diagnosed because I mask really well

Anonymous 1w

yea i’m same situation and tbh im not even gonna bother with testing

Anonymous 1w

There’s no harm in getting tested. Just be honest and vulnerable and they’ll likely know — you could also be neurodivergent in another way that is comorbid with autism, full testing is the only way to know and one therapists opinion is not the best all end all

Anonymous 1w

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Anonymous

#1 1w

I need the accommodations for work and school because I will have meltdowns in class/ at work that I need time to cool down from sadly so I think I’m just going to have to search really hard for a good and intuitive psychologist

Anonymous

OP 1w

hm yea it could also be beneficial to get a better grasp of what masking looks like for you and what unmasking could be like if that’d help