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If Evan wants you to, I'm afraid you've got to.
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also I'm crap at spelling. (I think that is what you were pointing out, thanks for pulling me up on it)
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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.
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except the professionals are trained to detect the poor interpersonal and communication skills, and they have tests and based on your responses and/or actions can determine a good estimite of what you have, I know this because I have been diagnosed by said professionals on more than one occaision, at first a pediatrition said I had ADD, then a school counciler said asburgers, then another pediatrition said ADHD, until a psycolagist examined me and said asburgers. the thing in common with the two people that got the diagnosis correct is that they analysed my behavior before diagnosing me one way or the other, while the 2 people who got it wrong just spoke to me forhalf an hour and made up thier minds, the problem with a self diagnostic is your trying to analyse your owne possably messed up mind based on possably missinterprited instructions on how to make a diagnosis, not to mention that you would never pick up on anything that you don't realize your doing, which thier were plenty of things I didn't realize I was doing when I got diagnosed, and I am giving you a long rant in the hope that you see how hard it is to read such a rant and try to make your posts easier to read so more poeple will actually read them.