Angela Mondor explains the difference between ADHD and autism as disabling conditions versus harmless quirks in neurotypical people. She affirms that self-diagnosis and self-identification are valid, whether or not someone pursues a formal diagnosis.
But it helps distinguish between that whole, I identify with some of these things. Well, yeah, because if I went out there onto social media this afternoon, for example, and just posted a, these are some of the, you know, these are 20 of the things that, that come up for me fairly frequently as an, as an autistic and ADHD human being. I'm, I'm down. Every single neurotypical that read it would be like, oh yeah, that's me. And that bit's me as well. And the difference is it does not disable their life. It's a weird quirk or a weird, oh, look at me and my time, you know, and I've got no track of time and so on and so forth. Correct. It's the culmination of a lot of things together that are actually hampering how you get the best out of the world in the way that many disadvantages do, whatever they are in life. The other thing I wanted to say was around self-diagnosis being 100% valid and couldn't agree more, you know, with what you were saying about folks self-identifying, etc. And if pursuing a diagnosis is supportive for you, great, do it. And if it isn't, that does not mean that you are any bit less valid than the next person.
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