This isn't true, stop fear mongering diagnosis. No one is going to lose their driver's license or the ability to get gender reaffirming care. Diagnosis won't stop you from doing any of those things, or owning a house, or adopting, or having a job, and the only people who say that, are uneducated about the ins and outs of the medical system.
It's a lie. A myth. It's fear mongering and harmful.
Instead of spreading fear around diagnosis, spread the truth about rights for patients and share with people how to exercise their rights when they feel someone is encroaching on them.
You should feel bad. This isn't how you fight for plural acceptance.
This isn't how you help people with CDDs.
This isn't how you create change within the system.
You're ignoring the real, valid reasons why someone maybe shouldn't be driving or something similar. There is a purpose to the testing of certain abilities due to SYMPTOMS (not disorders themselves).
I lost my father in a car accident, and if I had found out that someone involved had been driving after specifically being told not to due to their symptoms, I would lose my fucking mind. This is like being angry because someone with dementia (the memory loss, loss of faculties, loss of motor control, sudden panic) was told they shouldn't drive.
No, this is just a normal thing that sometimes needs to happen.
I don't drive, specifically, because I'm a shit driver and my dissociation is too bad. I've been in several accidents. I CAN ADMIT I SHOULDN'T DRIVE AT THIS POINT. This can change, and I'm allowed to change and try again. It's my dissociation and concentration, not my OSDD diagnosis, even if the two are related.
In every single case, doctors should be assessing patients based on their unique symptoms, and there are appeal processes in place to get second opinions. Rights to drive can be reinstated just as easily once symptoms are under control. And it's the same thing for everything else you listed. I know SO MANY systems that are out, diagnosed, and actively transitioning.
Stop making people afraid of getting help and talking about their symptoms.
Normalize NOT lying to your doctors and be honest about where you are, what you're struggling with, and what work you need to do on yourself.
When you accidentally hurt or kill someone, you'll wish you had been.
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