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[quote=Anonymous]An autism diagnosis is extremely subjective. I have gone to multiple psychologists and gotten wildly divergent opinions about whether or not my DC has it. The idea that psychologists do or should have some magic gate-keeping authority about who gets to call themselves autistic is absurd. Anyone can google the DSM-5 criteria, and having a psychology or psychiatry degree might give you some unique knowledge and perspective, but it does not make you somehow objective in opining about whether the criteria of autism diagnoses apply to a particular person. Same goes for virtually everything else in the DSM. [/quote]
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