i get the feeling my best friend doesn't believe in non binary. A while ago she said that she didn't believe it was a a thing. she literally called it a phase because she didn't know any adult that were non binary who used they/them in their pronouns. Which i find silly because she is a pansexual girl who should understand the stigma that gay people faced and still face. After years of being told that being gay isn't real and that its just a phase and she says that. and she doesn't really view trans people as people- she says its because her dad is a doctor and he finds it really difficult to diagnose trans patients when he doenst know what they are. Its so fucking stupid he could legit just ask if they were afab or amab but it should already be in their medical history. i fucking hate it. I also sent before and after picture of me wearing a binder and i was so happy. In the GC T congratulated me and gave me a shit ton of affirmations and it made me feel so genuinely good. but S just ignored it. I know we are drifting apart and i know its my fault because this always happens. after 5 years they go, they just disappear into the mist, a new school, new friends, or im too much
And last night i was doing an assignment on 2 separate books. Aftter i finished the first one i went on tiktok and of course a bunch of relatable autism stuff starts coming up and a vid about the raads-r test comes up. so i do teh test and get high scores and i do a bunch more of those tests and keep getting high scores in them.. In my 3am haze i sent the quiz to my family gc because im almost positive that my dad has autism. But he had a partially open discussion about it with me the next morning, to be continued for when i wasnt late for school. when i finally gathered up the courage to tell my bsf from before that day that i scored high in these autism tests and i was kind of excited to maybe understand why im like this, because ive been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. ad autism can often be misdiagnosed for those two mental illnesses if you have been kind of traumatized as an autistic person. She told me that it probably isnt it. She old me that sh doesn't trust those autism tests and that i shouldnt just self diagnose and that the depression and anxiety is whats making me think that. It felt liek shit. becsue tehre is a lot of evidence towards me being autistic, alongside the teste there s also a bunch of symptoms and there is a link between autism and asexuality(im asexual) where in a population of people there is about 1% asexuals but in the autistic populations they were far more likely to be asexual or feel disgusted toward sexual penetration.
I know that i cant just self diagnose but im trying to figure out whats wrong with me and its not like im about to go around telling everyone im autistic becasue ive self diagnosed my depression and anxiety for years and have only told like three people, and even now that ive been diagnosed i haven't told anyone else. Im not doing this because its trendy, the trend has just made me aware of how many autistic traits i carry around with me. i was just finally happy that maybe im getting somewhere with figuring out my mental health.
I think im gonna tell my other friend from that group chat. she is so supportive and has suspicions that she is autisic too. So im going to send her a message, with a forewarning. I just want to talk to someone who is actually going to listen about what i have to say before throwing her opinion in. And the pure confusion i have relation to my inability to express and know what emotions im feeling, she knows i have trouble with expressing my emotions and talking about how i feel but she doesnt seem to realise the impact on me
The dumb part about my friend telling me not to self diagnose is that she has been telling EVERYONE that she has ADHD for 2 years, she even told us in a group convo when she was accusing someone else of being a pick me for pretending to have adhd, someone pointed oout to my frined that she kind of mentioned having adhd a lot aswell and my friend tells everyone that her therapist diagnosed her. she lied to us and Up until now she didnt say she didnt have adhd until shes trying to prove me wrong. She basically said that she cant say she has adhd just because she gets easily distracted.
I had fully supported her, when she claimed she had adhd, i believed her and did my won research, sending her videos which are supposed to help learning in a nuerotypical classroom easier. and all she does is tell me that those tests arent reliable. AT LEAST I ACTUALLY TOOK SOME TESTS INSTEAD OF PROPERLY SELF DIAGNOSING FOR YEARS AND BRAGGING ABOUT ADHD AND USING IT AS AN EXCUSE TO INTERRUPT AND IGNORE PEOPLE.AND T