So here are three top reasons why an autism diagnosis maybe essential for you?
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Oh, it's been a hot minute, but.
I'm excited to write this one because I get this question, asked a bunch
of times people say to me, like, is it worth having a diagnosis?
Do I need a diagnosis?
What are the benefits of having a diagnosis?
Do we get diagnosed with autism now?
It's interesting.
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So, um, why is an autism diagnosis essential?
Well, I've listed off three main reasons.
Why I personally think autism diagnosis are helpful, but let me
just give a disclaimer right here.
Nobody's forcing you to have an autism diagnosis.
If you feel like you're on the spectrum and you take all the boxes
and you don't want those like, uh, HQ tests at home, uh, then maybe.
You don't want to diagnose this and that's absolutely fine.
It's your choice.
It's your life.
Nobody should be telling you what to do.
Right.
But if you're looking to see, Oh, maybe having a diagnosis will be a good
thing, but why would it be a good thing then this video is definitely for you.
So in that sense, if you're here to learn more about why diagnosis is
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Okay.
So number one, this is like the number one reason access help.
Now an official diagnosis can allow you access to help that may be
unavailable to you in your area, uh, like therapy in group sessions.
And they may have been restricted to people with just
an official paper diagnosis.
I know it's just a piece of paper.
It doesn't mean absolutely anything, but on, you know, on paper when
somebody is paying funding for therapy or groups or whatever, our sessions.
And they have to prove that it's been used by people with that diagnosis.
Then you can understand why that paper validation of the official
diagnosis can actually help benefit you or restrict you from it actually
accessing those health facilities.
Now I actually found this one.
No, it's interesting things.
When I was diagnosed, um, my a , which is like an ASD development
worker who is government funded.
Yeah, who worked with me, a guy called David.
He, um, he sent me up with loads of some things like support groups and
different types of like just meetings and therapies and all kinds of stuff.
And he was absolutely amazing and he, uh, helped understand that, uh, the, uh, the.
The level of support or the level of help and support that you can get
because of a diagnosis was so beneficial.
Like you always going to benefit from that.
It's not a bad thing.
It's never going to be a bad thing, but some people,
again, it's a personal choice.
I found it really helpful.
I found those meetings, the group sessions and everything,
and the therapy really helpful.
Um, and you know, I gained from that, but.
Then again, somebody else may not gain from that, but it's their
complete and personal choice.
Okay.
So number two is access to support.
Now, again, having an official diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder
will allow you to access areas of support from your local government
or authorities that may be available.
Um, and this could be medical, social financial, you know, it could be
anything actually, because we all need support in different areas, right?
No matter what our level of ability is.
So when you have an autism diagnosis, Those levels of support that you need may
vary from the neurotypical average person, because the neurotypical people don't need
support and emotional support and the same way of assessing people do, but having
an unofficial autism diagnosis may open the door to having that support for you.
Of course, there's financial support for people who are having difficulties
working certain amount of hours or.
In certain jobs or maybe finding it hard to find a job
because they're on the spectrum.
And sometimes governments and local authorities will offer financial
support in those areas for you.
If you need that at that time, which I find really, really helpful.
And it helped me a lot when I was in between work before I started
doing, you know, YouTube full-time and I was just finishing university.
I didn't know what to do.
And I've found it really difficult to find work with the financial support from,
from government and local agencies to just help you just Bumble along for a couple
of months was really, really helpful.
But it never goes together.
If it didn't have a diagnosis, which would never have helped me.
And I would never be able to do this.
So you never know if something is going to be able to help
you or benefit you in any way.
So number three is probably one of my favorite things.
The self-development.
So a huge part of the day was this process is the acceptance, um, aspect
of knowing who you are as lots of people who are, you know, in limbo
with an autism diagnosis, never really accept themselves for who they are.
And an official diagnosis can start you on a point to do this
because it kind of like focuses.
You say, well, this is who I am.
I'm an autistic person.
In the world.
What does that mean?
How do I define what that is?
And like I said, the, the, the, the diagnosis doesn't
define who you are, right.
It's who you are that defines who you are.
The diagnosis just allows you to understand that the things that may be
different, you know, from the average near typical person and the things that you do
that as a little bit different, doesn't make you weird or anything like that.
All it does.
It says, Oh, that's an autism spectrum related condition.
And everything else is me.
And I am me and that self kind of development or self exploration and
that self love that comes from that.
It's just so it's, it's amazing because for years, our cross off like
weird, I was like, why am I so weird?
I'm so dumb or I'm so stupid.
Or, you know, and I get frustrated because I was like so annoyed at myself and yeah.
You know, when I had the diagnosis, we were like, Oh, it's not because
like, I'm just, I'm not being weird.
You know, it's, my brain is wired a little bit differently
and that's completely okay.
It almost gives people, uh, that like, it's the acceptance they need.
They go, okay, well, look, I'm giving you the authority to say
that it's okay to feel like that.
And so okay.
That, you know, I hit my head when I'm stressed out and it's
definitely one of the most.
I don't know what to explain it.
One of the most kind of like important pieces of my life is the self discovery
and development from an autism diagnosis.
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