I got high and somehow convinced myself I have autism, is that a sign of a much deeper problem?

[Anonymous]

[bobalife]

That’s just drugs speaking. If you wanna know, go to a doctor to do a proper autism screening if you have the diagnosis.

[bobalife]

P. S. please don’t self diagnosis because it may not be accurate and may give you more anxiety/misinformation…. go to an actual doctor who can do autism diagnosis.

[IslaTheWitch]

nope, we are able to convince ourselves to anything... it only means you are weak AF

[Asker]

I guess you have a point and it didn’t help that I got in tik tok to further diagnose me and let them tell it any weird quirk you have, it’s autism. I also learned most autistic people diagnose themselves because “Neurotypical” people don’t convince themselves that they have autism and that’s when I knew I was deep in the rabbit hole.

[IslaTheWitch]

autism is a very specific way of perceiving reality, together with tiny changes in autistic mind it produces not typical output... but it's spectrum, so all is individual and only a good psychologist with tools can tell you if you are within the spectrum or not...

[noemiii]

Well, do you?

[Asker]

According to tik tok and general social media diagnosis any little quirky thing I do, is autism but outside of that, no I don’t.

[noemiii]

I think autistic traits are very specific though. Like avoiding eye contact and general discomfort around social settings.
I’m autistic and used YouTube videos for my initial diagnosis. It doesn’t hurt to do so but I do not think the core autistic traits can be confused with something else.

[Asker]

I wasn’t confusing the core traits I was just high out of my mind and before I was high the thought of being autistic never crossed my mind. I have OCD but that’s due to my anxiety. I repetitively clean things to keep my stress levels down. When I feel myself getting anxious I clean. I understand with autism repetitive behaviors are common but not for the same reason.

[Asker]

If you don’t mind me asking why do you believe you have autism so much so that YouTube lead to your own self diagnosis?

[noemiii]

If it’s just those reasons for repetitiveness, that’s not a clear indicator. Autism usually has to do with social interaction issues that most of us can agree on.
And I got my diagnosis from YouTube because it had been bothering me why I had a severe social inept issue. It wasn’t something that was just shyness it was a clear avoidance of social interaction. Even as a kid, I never wanted or cared about having friends and was constantly in and out of therapy. I also have always struggled with eye contact as I found it too intense.
I was able to pinpoint my diagnosis then go to a specialist. I’d been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the past as well. You can definitely self diagnose from YouTube if you actually know the symptoms you suffer from and aren’t ignorant to doing so. If you have the flu and look up symptoms of a flu, you will find you have the flu on Google. If you have symptoms of the flu but keep searching past that to unreliable sources you will think you have AIDs. It’s all about smart thinking and most people don’t look up things with a smart head. Meanwhile me self diagnosing my autism has gotten me so much more help since adult females are the hardest to diagnose with autism.

[noemiii]

Going to a specialist isn’t always the best way to get results. Most typical psychiatrists can’t diagnose autism even in children that’s why there are so many specialized care centers for autism.

[Abbycado]

What, the doing drugs or the fake autism?

[Kaneki05]

No that's called drugs.