re: Question about Autism diagnosis "levels"
@stackingstones@todon.nl @lapis the first attempt at diagnosing me kinda. has that? bc they asked parents to describe things i had trouble with / what helped with it. and then they wrote a couple-dozen page document about me and didn't give people the actually useful information
of course, that only works when it's a young'un involved, and i didn't get diagnosed then, but still
re: Question about Autism diagnosis "levels"
@stackingstones@todon.nl @lapis i mean it's the same core problem as functioning labels originally. it doesn't actually label functioning at all, just how well you can act nt
my autism diagnosis was weird bc everyone already knew i was autistic beforehand so i went to the whoever and they were like "ok let's read the book together" and then they wrote a note confirming i'm autistic. it was all just a formality, basically, since we both knew i was beforehand
@amateurwitch jkhj by the nine i Have to see that now
@amateurwitch why 'accidentally' do it on porpoise
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re: Question about Autism diagnosis "levels"
@lapis in the process of typing this i looked it up and it's definitely just a new version of functioning labels wow. worth noting that there aren't any sources here from actual psych professionals and that a$ is the first non-dotcom result. they have three "levels" and level 1 is what "high-functioning" was in functioning labels. i'm not looking further
it looks like they might've actually invented a more ableist version of functioning labels, yikes
@bryn they are here is where the enbies are
legal -
full name is too long to fit in the fields on legal forms, which means having to use physical copies and write things by hand, which means needing a dozen paper forms all in triplicate, which means both excessive waste and way too much spoons just to fill out the forms and now we gotta navigate the hell that is the local court on top of that. all of which could've been avoided if they'd had a decent character limit in these fields—some of them have a char limit of like. 52. why even
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@CyclopsCaveman agab is pronounced ahab because from hell's heart i stab at thee
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doppleganger bingo
@dopple@cryptid.industries and there ya have it, folks. i have concrete reasons for the uh, two. of course it was. i didn't mark:
• horrible with names so i don't actually Know whether i agree
• i'm absolutely disagreeing about the colour one just on principle bc a) purple is fork's favourite b) i filled this out in purple i don't wanna be rude c) look i have a reputation for being contrarian i can't just agree with everything what is this
a bug, not a feature.
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