It’s a symptom of the category of people who don’t have access to or are unwilling to talk to a medical professional so they just collect diagnoses for themselves based off of relatable internet memes and make it their identity, reality and science be damned.
It’s very hard to keep these people out of online neurodivergent communities because initially an uneducated person who still needs to learn about themselves and their condition with the help of medical professionals is indistinguishable from a self-diagnosis trading card collector, and you don’t want to discourage people who are actually here to learn but are just scared.
It’s a symptom of the category of people who don’t have access to or are unwilling to talk to a medical professional so they just collect diagnoses for themselves based off of relatable internet memes and make it their identity, reality and science be damned.
It’s very hard to keep these people out of online neurodivergent communities because initially an uneducated person who still needs to learn about themselves and their condition with the help of medical professionals is indistinguishable from a self-diagnosis trading card collector, and you don’t want to discourage people who are actually here to learn but are just scared.