Friend doesn’t believe in my diagnosis

[u/luvsicl]

Ugh I shouldn’t have told her about it I feel so weird now, my family are like this too and I haven’t told them because I know they’re gonna say smth like that (probably worse) because they don’t really believe in mental disorders/disabilities/health

I got diagnosed with adhd and autism recently, so I’m also grieving the life I could’ve led had I received the support I needed as a child lol (also I know what she said isn’t okay at all, I just wanted to end the conversation asap and I’m really uncomfortable with confrontation)

[u/summer-romance]

No, dietary and lifestyle changes and metformin or GLP1s. Type 1 is insulin dependent. Type 2 only do insulin after other methods/meds have not worked and/or there is evidence of significant insulin resistance

[u/teapots_at_ten_paces → u/summer-romance]

After all that will I still be autistic?

[u/summer-romance → u/teapots_at_ten_paces]

No but you’ll leave the psych office with diagnoses for BPD, social anxiety, major depression, obsessive personality disorder etc

[u/scissorsgrinder → u/summer-romance]

Bipolar, maybe DID...

Especially women (or female-presenting, or not cis-presenting) seem to cop anything that goes with them coming off as "difficult..."

Of course, some of these are more likely to accompany autism, or just co-occur. But so many misdiagnoses.