Do you ever think that maybe a diagnosis you received may have come back to bite you?
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I know my wife wishes she had never been officially diagnosed with depression, as it precludes her from some jobs she wanted to apply for. How true this is is reality, I don’t know.
Not sure where you’re located, but at least in the USA it’s definitely illegal for an employer to discriminate against a medical diagnosis like that. They aren’t even allowed to ask you private medical questions during the hiring process.
It prevents you from jobs like airline pilots, the rationale being that placing someone potentially suicidal in control of a plane full of people isn’t a good idea. The rationale doesn’t really make total sense but you can see why they’d think that way.
Nope, can’t see it at all.
except that airline pilots end up depressed and untreated instead of just not depressed.
It’s illegal unless there’s a bonafide occupational qualification that your disability prevents you from performing. Like you couldn’t apply for a job as a furniture mover if you’re a quadriplegic and cry discrimination when they don’t select you. And the employer can ask things like “this job requires that you lift heavy objects of up to 600lbs with the assistance of another person and a back brace. Do you have any medical or other reason you could not perform these duties?”.
Now if that weren’t a real occupational qualification, that’d be discriminatory. Like if they said you had to be a man for that moving job - there’s no reason you have to be a man, you just have to be able to move 600lb things.
I’m on the autism spectrum, with very low support needs. My health care provider has that in my medical records. Now I’m worried that I’m going to disappear into some camp, and my wife will never know what happened.
I’ve never been happier not to have an official diagnosis. My wife and I are considering our options.
Ireland? New Zealand? We both have semi in demand skills. I’m a tradesman and she’s a social worker. Realistically we’re stuck here but looking at what we might be able to do
The psychologist who did like a shortened test on me actually recommended against going further and also getting diagnosed by a psychiatrist if I don’t want any official support. Just not worth a lifetime of discrimination within the medical system. I’m noticing it happening with my ADHD diagnosis. That one’s worth the discrimination though, since the treatment is a life saver (potentially literally).
Agreed, treatment changed my ADHD life. And it’s still nowhere near removing all of the symptoms
Why?
RFKjr is setting up a national autism registration and he’s already proposed to send neurodivergent people to farms. It’s pure Nazi eugenics.
I did a search, and discovered articles pointing to sending addicts to farms. I couldn’t find anything similar for neurodivergent people.
Can you link something?
The article specifically states that the reason for getting this info is to link with other datasets to look for causes for the increase in autism cases.
“Linking CMS claims data with a secure real-world NIH data platform, fully compliant with privacy and security laws, will unlock landmark research into the complex factors that drive autism and chronic disease — ultimately delivering superior health outcomes to the Americans we serve,” he said.
It makes no mention of farms for neurodivergent people. That’s some nonsense.
He’s “looking for a cure” that he knows doesn’t exist. This is eugenics.
ironically, he’d have to join himself.
My pet goldfish was also sent to a farm when I was a kid. Sending people to farms sounds like a euphemism for extermination.
What?! Can you provide some sources on this?
That seems to be complete nonsense. RFKjr is working to determine the cause of the increase in autism rates by linking datasets. Specifically looking into correlation with vaccines.
There has never been talk of sending neurodivergent people to farms or camps.
Ffs America you’re supposed to be setting the example here
Lmao, when?
Yah, well, this time the US is invading the US to give it some much needed ‘freedom.’
The U$ genocide of native peoples inspired the Nazi holocaust. The U$ has only ever set the example for genocide.
~ Germany, Dec 8 1941
Undefined veritable detected, auto filling… … …
BAD EXAMPLES WILL BE SET.
I’m 50/50. On one hand it’s interesting and good to know about yourself and your issues but it is a double-ended sword. I was diagnosed with ASPD a little while back among other things and while I’m glad I understand the root for a lot of my problematic traits I now also have a piece of paper that makes me look bad if I have to go to court.
I will never be able to get a small engine private pilot license due to fainting, despite it literally never happening unless I’m standing up…
Airplanes pull G, making it far more intense than being standing. You would absolutely faint in a plane; this one is kinda fair, sorry bud.
Celiac is a real pain in the ass and makes me sound unhinged at a restaurant.
I’m just so tired of checking every single ingredient list.
Also tired of terms at restaurants like “Gluten Aware”, “Gluten Conscious”, etc. Then you find out everything is still going in the same fryer 🫤
How would it be better if you hadn’t been diagnosed?
Are you severe? Any complications as a result?
I’m not sure if I’m severe - I get a three-day migraine that is not unresponsive to medication if I eat gluten. 🤷 I was vitamin deficient and had damage to my intestines, but that’s fixed now. I have a lot of other weird food stuff going on, but am still unclear if it is even related. The biggest complication is not being able to eat out easily. And I’m that person at parties that I brings their own food.
I’m so used to not eating out, eating at family gatherings. Cooking everything from scratch with salt only. Low fodmap, low sugar, low fat. I have SIBO. Liver issues, kidney failure, migraines, basically systemic issues. Can’t tolerate anything hardly at all. Top 9 allergen free. I feel like a basket case of issues with mine. So I was curious about you.
Oh! I didn’t realize it can cause other things. I have hashimotos, can’t eat soy or animal products and am dizzy sometimes when holding completely still. You are not alone - I just didn’t connect all of mine with celiac.
I am really glad and very priveleged to have been diagnosed with ADHD. However, I worry that my official diagnoses might put me in danger soon
I wish I straight up just didn’t have the things I was diagnosed with. The diagnosis themselves haven’t changed anything other than now I at least know I am not a piece of shit on purpose.
It ain’t nothing, but fuckin eczema lol. Gotta lotion up every day and even then, sometimes you get random flare ups.
Depression 100% I have lost so much of my youth to it, and even now with my meds and lifestyle changes it still finds its way back into my life. Hell, depression is the reason why I’m 21 and still in highschool! It’s an awful condition
Wouldn’t being undiagnosed, presumably without those meds, be worse though, not better?
