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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lwaxy" data-source="post: 6320183" data-attributes="member: 53286">There would be a waiting list longer than 3 years for a diagnosis from one of the 2 or 3 "qualified" psychatrists. Recently, they opened up 2 more places not too far away, but even there, you need to wait for months. And that is bad in more than one way, because myself, as many Aspies, I can't plan that far ahead. I have trouble scheduling ahead for conventions and game meetups, or for work needing to be done in our house, or even my  cancer followups. If I have issues with stuff that's fun for me or is something I really want or need done, I can't in any way manage to keep track of stuff that is that far ahead and does not really help me that much. What my doctors did was to just enter it in my file and not bother with all the hassle. To anyone who knows about it, it's very obvious I'm on spectrum. The only issue with not having an insurance-official diagnosis until now is not getting single rooms in hospitals without raising trouble. They comply once they find no one can bear living in the same room with me, or when I get a breakdown. Which unfortunately always happens. I've had to self-diagnose several things, for me and others. Not once been wrong. But then, I don't just buy into checklists online. I find out what it is and then ask a doctor to confirm <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> I think people who follow the latest fashion in disabilities have some other problem altogether. I've not met any of them yet, at least not that I know but I bet they are plenty out there. As to tech in education, my niece told me today that in the two classes she has where everyone is using a laptop now, no one ever seems to look at the teacher anymore, and she finds that rather disturbing. some of her classmates don't even remember who of their 3 or 4 teachers for those classesdid the actual lesson. I'm not a fan of that, either. Glad not to be a student in today's world.</blockquote>

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