I think that's just for repost protection.

That is historically what they do, lie, then vote opposing to the lie. They'll try for killing Blackburn's, too, I bet, because of the rumour it has something to do with first nations people. Whoever the dickhead was who suggested one nation are ok, needs to look at their policy and voting history.

Glad you're here, bring your friends!

Nobody neurotypical wonders if they're neurodivergent. If you feel like things are a struggle, they are!

Doctor shopping is when you purposefully skirt the laws around prescription drugs to get more than you should be safely consuming. It's not when you need a second opinion, or even a twentieth opinion.

I get you, from what you have described to me, I would highly recommend seeking a diagnosis from someone who is trained up to current standards. I feel like you have expressed enough sensory struggles and life hurdles that qualify for a diagnosis.

There's a lot of propaganda going around and it's hard not to fall for some of it. A diagnosis helps you understand all the factors that might effect you, assess how much they're effecting you and adjust your life accordingly to be able to live a better life. Imaging if this same argument and gatekeeping and invalidation propaganda went on for people with amputations or obvious physical disabilities, it would look ridiculous, it should look ridiculous for the people who try and minimise what it's like living with an invisible disability.

It's incredibly hard to step back and see the forest for the trees, it's hard to see what's effecting your life, when it's always been like this, you can't step outside your life and have a look at it from afar, and you acclimatise to what you're living with so things might even be impacting you more than you realise! And that's where you need a good currently, and up to date trained professional to help you sort through it all. Doctors are just people, they're just as fallible as people can be. You have to find a person who fits your needs.

Neurotypicals don't struggle with the things you have described. They just don't. Not just tags in shirts, (they don't bother me, they don't bother my grandson who's diagnosed asd level 3) it's if your senses are turned up too high. Do your socks bother you, are you picky about fabric you can stand or not stand, do you struggle with certain waist bands, or shirt cuffs or length of sleeve, you could probably fill in some more. How are you with towels, they get to me, I can't stand them! I still use them, but it's hell.

There's so many things that aren't on the diagnostic standards that will be in 10 years, even.

The reason there's a flood of people getting late stage diagnosis now, is because they've finally acknowledged you don't "grow out of" autism and adhd, and they're recognising parts of the conditions, that have always been there, that excluded all the people in levels 2 and 1, who are now currently recognised. It's worth it at any stage.

It sounds like you interacted with some doctors who aren't updated on autism presentations. There used to be a question about trains, apparently, and if you didn't like trains you would be disqualified, they dropped that. They're only just in the middle of shaking up the definition of autism and noticing women do have autism but present differently, and that it's not solely a paediatric condition (they used to think autism was entirely contained in childhood, pfff idiots!!) I mean these people have to be ignoring obvious signs to be thinking like this.

Not all doctors are going to be up to date, and not all of them are going to be capable of diagnosis, correctly, your feelings are absolutely a million percent valid. It absolutely sucks balls. These dickheads are professionals, they bloody should be on top of all the current findings. Fuck them.

You deserve acknowledgement, and as much as it sucks, it might take engaging with multiple professionals (hopefully just one more) to get the acknowledgement you deserve.

I absolutely get it, I'm 49, I think I'm asd and adhd, although I'm woman and gifted, so I was able to ace school without really trying, (but couldn't finish anything, kept dropping out and going back to try again) and I'm able to mask really well. Although I started to stop masking and holy bananas, when you put the mask down, you can't pick it back up. I just wonder how much easier my life would have been if I had had a diagnosis earlier in life.

It's worth pursuing. Keep going. I'm sorry you found a dickhead doctor.

Are you vibe guessing an environmental study, are you for real? Dude.

Have you been introduced to the levels of autism? It kinda does meet your understanding of a bit in between both. ASD comes with a number that aligns with the levels it effects your life, from 1 to 3. Level 2 and 3 are quite significant, and have huger impacts on your life, level 1 is what used to be named after a nazi guy, who's name I won't say, and it was changed for that same reason. Being level 1 is still full autism.

Also adhd tends to compensate or mask asd, so if you got an adhd diagnosis and then find medication that helps compensate for the executive dysfunction that is a part of adhd, that sometimes clears the way for noticing the asd more clearly. A lot of people get adhd diagnosis and didn't notice the asd till after they have found medication that works for them. And then go back. Your adhd might be compensating for your asd and also messing with the test results. Maybe try to eliminate the adhd first? But it sounds like you need to find better doctors first, wishing you well in your journey, friend.

It's almost hilarious how much of a cliché villain he is.

This is a huge strawman argument I see quite frequently. I agree change happens with force, but without collective action, one person burning down a warehouse might have effect, but how much? Wouldn't it be better to plan, gather together and act collectively? Why does this argument that you have to prove your metal and burn something down, alone or you just aren't hard core enough and therefore a fake, come up so much? All it does is detract and dismis from the important points. Do you really feel like the answer is all people who feel they're "real" leftists, should go do some severe property damage and then bam, everything solved? I'm doing the same thing, by even asking you, but I see it so often. I don't see that as the answer at all, I don't see how that helps, but you do, I'm genuinely curious what you see as a result of burning down an amazon warehouse, and therefore proving "leftism", what changes do you feel that makes? They just get to sit in jail and wear a badge of honour they know about? Or do you see actual change occurring from these actions?

Think of both versions of yourself, in the future. How are you going to feel if it comes to it that you can do the things you wanted, (Linux to ps5) and you've updated so you can't. Is that going to sit in your head in a destructive way, is it going to run around your head on repeat just smashing up the place. Or do you think you can help yourself through that disappointment easily? Because if that's going to haunt you too hard, don't do it.

It sounds like you want to update to play, it sounds like that's a very important thing for you right now. But It also sounds like you would like the freedom it will afford you, having full ownership and flexibility of your own devices.

The question is how long do you have to wait and is it worth the wait.

I think they'll definitely work this out and soon. These big companies have pissed people off to the degree they're pissing in your face, kinda pissed off. There's no coming back from that level of anger at their behaviour, and there are some brilliant people who turn that anger into action, it's going to happen and these people are going to guide us through and be a huge part of how we defeat the big corps. It will happen, but it might take a while (maybe a year or 6 months) and it's going to be glitchy.

There is no right decision. The right decision is the one you make, and whichever one you do choose will come with difficulties that you have to help yourself work through.

It's worth waiting, but it's also worth living your life.

I suppose my only suggestion might be can you find a new hobby till the dam breaks?

Something (app whatever) that divines the "evil" in all the things I need to buy, for me, without me having to do research on who has sold out, who is supporting killing babies, who is killing the rainforests, who is using child slave labour to extract their products etc etc. It's fucking exhausting and monotonous, you can't just check once, you gotta click refresh every bloody day. It's doing my head in. I just want to buy stuff that I can eat etc, that isn't tainted in others blood. Fuck this timeline, I can't wait till it corrects itself, shit gunna be glorious. I'll be there with some ethically sourced popcorn and a Molotov.

Every time someone says "this is America" I hear it in Childish Gambino.

That's a bit extremist. Jump straight to the hoards of invaders waiting to shit in your bed (let's not talk about how suspiciously specific that is). That's the type of fear mongering being evoked by certain cults purporting propaganda, currently.

Why not instead imagine your boarders are just bigger, and there's just more people in your community, to work as a community together, pooling resources and looking after each other.

People are all just people, one pool of people on the other side of boarders, aren't magically malicious, just because they're on the other side. People aren't born evil and out to get you (as long as you don't count the 1%).

If people are desperate for a bed to shit in (seriously, wtf are you up to in your spare time...wait, actually, don't tell me) why not give them one. Maybe hoarding resources was never a good idea, and if we all have enough beds to shit in, we can get on to doing the good work, parties.

I don't even know if I'm attracted to this guy, but I swear he somehow gets infinitely hotter, every day.

I grew up watching reruns of this show on the weekends, loved all of the adaptations to my core.

This is not about social media bans, it's against the corrupt government. It's being reframed. If you think about it, if the only problem was social media ban, they'd just all get vpns. They're not stupid. They're trying to frame it as silly kids, (because they're all gen z and Gen alpha, in their school uniforms, so as to be less likely to be shot) who can't live without social media. But it's not, it's protesting deep government corruption. If word gets out that it's a protest against government corruption, other people facing similar oppression, may become emboldened, so it's being buried.

I commented this below, but in case it gets lost, I'll attach here too, this is not about what main stream media is trying to reframe it as. They tossed their monarchy and decided they'd have a two party system, what could go wrong, the two parties decided to join as a coalition, so only one party, and then went absolutely mad with power enriching themselves and cutting all vital services to and for the people and they were ramping up the evil, by the day. The people said fk that, you're going down, en masse. Not about social media at all. You don't hear what's really going on in places, from the news, they tell you what serves their billionaire owners agenda.

I dunno about Michael Jackson, but he's perfected the drunk uncle at a wedding.

I had measles as a kid, I wasn't vaccinated, i remember it as if it were yesterday, it was so traumatic, i genuinely thought I was going to die, I genuinely felt my mortality, at like 7 or 8yo. the pain was more than I could cope with. My mother was (and still is) an antivaxer. As deranged (and narc) as they come. I got my kids vaccinated. It's ripping my heart out, knowing what these kids are, entirely unnecessarily, being put through.

Dude, don't normalise this bullshit. Wtf.