So I have been thinking about this for a while. I Am quite sure, that I am somewhere on the spectrum. Im not sure if Its autism or ADHD or somewhere between. I do observe quite a lot of behaviours in myself that regularly get associated with neuroduvergent people (example: I constantly observe different people to analysis how they act in “social interactions” (or other stuff too), because I kind if don’t know what society expects as social norms (etc.)).
Logically the next step would be to go to a psychologist and get tested for neurodivergency. The thing is, that I seriously do not see the use in doing so. I know all the different quirks I have quite good and how to deal with them. I also wouldn’t say, that they cause any sort of “day to day problems” for myself. Why should I invest the effort to search for a psychologist (I really should do that, but thats for this shitload of other problems I have) to get tested just so that I have a piece of paper that does not change anything in my day to day life.
Depends entirely on how much you struggle. Diagnosis is useful for knowing what kind of help to get. If you don’t struggle, but only see some kind of behavior patterns that might occasionally cause problems, you can just try to address those individually.
I have a diagnosis for BPD, which was useful for getting treatment and ultimately, financial support. These days however I don’t agree with the diagnosis and rather think I’m somewhere in the BPD/C-PTSD/Autism neighborhood but I don’t really need a clinical diagnosis for any practical purposes.
These are all just words that people made up, that reflect a cluster of patterns with great variability between individuals. They’re not absolute truths. Just tools to help navigate whatever system one finds themselves in.