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I wouldn't even trust a certified and world-renowned expert to self-diagnose their own cognitive and behavioural condition. The inside perspective is too narrow and self-restricting.
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But is there not an element of benefit from the reduced possibility for misinterpretation or miscommunication of thoughts? The professional diagnosticians don't get to follow you around everywhere, and don't know your every thought and emotion; thus, they have to rely on what you tell them, plus whatever relevant characteristics can be detected through current brain scanning technology. When you consider that one of the autistic hallmarks is a significant deficit in interpersonal conversation skills, the external diagnosis process has it's own noteworthy faults as well. On a more proverbial level, people have enthusiastically and empirically self-analyzed themselves throughout history, regardless of whether or not they had an all encompassing term to describe their observations. Does someone
really need a doctor to tell them they have greater attention deficits than their peers, or that they're experiencing a major depressive episode, or that they have a drug problem? Same shit, different category.