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.
Well then you wouldn’t qualify a diagnosis. A competent diagnostician would say that you do not have ADHD or Autism. You may have some neurodivergent tendencies without being categorically classified into one of the diagnostically-labelled neurotypes.
But I guess your question is why to do it at all? Getting a diagnosis helped me focus on exactly where to put my efforts toward managing my life. Very worth it for me. Suspecting I was autistic was all well and good, but the idea that ‘maybe I wasn’t’ was a bit of an obstacle to moving ahead with certain changes.