am i allowed to call myself autistic (or say i ~identify with the autism spectrum~ or what fucking ever) based on years spent getting to know autism and myself, and a sense of "holy shit i finally get it now, this diagnosis is actually a rly useful framework for me to understand why i am like how i am" or do i have to wait until i get to the top of a provincial healthcare waitlist and find a doctor who agrees with me? because i'm getting pretty fucking tired of the latter hahahahah aaaaaahhh ah ahanaha haha
any of the traits fount in an autistic diagnosis are well within the range of 'human' style traits and behaviors. they may not be traits that everyone has, but they are still vastly human traits. thousands and hundreds if not zillions of people have those traits. but if you are waiting for a doctor to write you permission to be yourself, i would pose the question: who do you think writes the doctors permission to be themselves? i'll tell you the answer: it's larger doctors. the point of this story is to see if you can locate the largest doctor and see if you can get them to write you permission to become a very large doctor, not the largest but possibly second largest