Neurodivergent on Yik Yak | let’s de normalize casually diagnosing people when you have no credentials whatsoever. you’re a neurotypical college student. you do not get to diagnose your whole family with autism.

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Neurodivergent 4w

let’s de normalize casually diagnosing people when you have no credentials whatsoever. you’re a neurotypical college student. you do not get to diagnose your whole family with autism.

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Anonymous 4w

Actually lemme go on a whole rant about this because it’s the neurodivergent group so it’s cool 😂 People really just need to get better at identifying and acknowledging what they do and don’t know. For example even as a psychological professional I know how to identify symptoms but I do not know enough about strangers nor have the objectivity towards loved ones to diagnose anyone but my clients. If a psychological professional can’t diagnose someone who’s not their client a layman def can’t.

Anonymous 4w

agreed i think phrasing matters though, like sort of hypothesizing rather than stating it as fact

Anonymous 3w

also the other way around, shout out to my high school friend who told me i wasn’t autistic after i told them i was diagnosed as a kid. i’m like you’re 17 i think im gonna trust the psychiatrist

Anonymous 4w

Ok, I can see your point about neurotypicals doing it. But I wouldn’t know that I’m AuDHD instead of just autistic if my friends with ADHD didn’t tell me that I probably had it and should get tested. Likewise, one of my friends on the spectrum convinced another friend to get tested, and was right. So, if you’re only saying “you might have [insert diagnosis that speaker has], I recommend getting tested”, that has actually helped a lot of people.

Anonymous

#1 4w

yeah ig, maybe i’m just a bitch but when neurotypicals do it that bothers me regardless tbh

Anonymous

OP 4w

Pisses me off when anyone does it, an also hypothesizing about strangers like bro that is straight up none of your business

Anonymous

#1 4w

And for laymen, you may know a lot about a disorder and even have that disorder but you do not know enough about strangers to even hypothesize. Hypothesizing on family and friends makes sense in a situation where it affects you ie: family medical history or interpersonal conflict. However, you are still obligated to be respectful in the way you talk about that hypothesis and be completely honest about noticing symptoms rather than noticing a diagnosis. (because that’s not how diagnosis works)

Anonymous

#1 4w

Exactly!!! Like I’m not saying anything for certain, but my grandpa definitely does have special interest in media (like stacks and stacks of DVDs and hes always burning more) and misses a lot of social cues, and my dad def has a special interest in mechanics and vehicles generally and struggles in conversation with multiple people and got bullied to hell and back as a child. Like nothing for certain here but the autism came from somewhere and there’s signs on both sides of the family tree.

Anonymous 3w

exactly!!! yeah im not talking abt nd people suggesting that someone might have a disorder that they also have and should look into that.