Can anyone relate?

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry you had that experience. We specifically have a rule against gatekeeping. If you don’t mind, can you please link in which you saw people saying self-diagnosis isn’t valid?

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      1 year ago

      Well, even under this topic people compare people who self diagnose with people who are antivaxxers.

      Otherwise here are two links. The others have already been deleted because you’re doing a really good job here

      Here’s one

      And here’s another

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for linking and sorry for the delay. I reviewed both of the links. In the first one, there may be some implied gatekeeping, but I understand that the purpose of the discussion was to cover self-diagnosis. Users were asked for their opinions. They weren’t actively finding people to tell them they weren’t autistic. The latter is what we are aiming to prevent with that rule.

        For the second link, it seems like that might have been an honest question rather than gatekeeping.

        We’ll let those stay for now since they may help others review conversations on self-diagnosis. However, please report gatekeeping in the future. We don’t want anyone here that knows they’re autistic but cannot access a medical diagnosis to be further marginalized. As autistics, we’ve all been bullied enough.