Do you ever think that maybe a diagnosis you received may have come back to bite you?
I’m on the autism spectrum, with very low support needs. My health care provider has that in my medical records. Now I’m worried that I’m going to disappear into some camp, and my wife will never know what happened.
I’ve never been happier not to have an official diagnosis. My wife and I are considering our options.
Ireland? New Zealand? We both have semi in demand skills. I’m a tradesman and she’s a social worker. Realistically we’re stuck here but looking at what we might be able to do
Why?
American
I know my wife wishes she had never been officially diagnosed with depression, as it precludes her from some jobs she wanted to apply for. How true this is is reality, I don’t know.
Not sure where you’re located, but at least in the USA it’s definitely illegal for an employer to discriminate against a medical diagnosis like that. They aren’t even allowed to ask you private medical questions during the hiring process.
It’s illegal unless there’s a bonafide occupational qualification that your disability prevents you from performing. Like you couldn’t apply for a job as a furniture mover if you’re a quadriplegic and cry discrimination when they don’t select you. And the employer can ask things like “this job requires that you lift heavy objects of up to 600lbs with the assistance of another person and a back brace. Do you have any medical or other reason you could not perform these duties?”.
Now if that weren’t a real occupational qualification, that’d be discriminatory. Like if they said you had to be a man for that moving job - there’s no reason you have to be a man, you just have to be able to move 600lb things.
The government enters the chat
…diagnosis from who?
Myself: meh, I could be wrong, I’m not a professional.
Doctor: hahahahaha what? What am I? Made of money?
You made it sound like you were going to be imprisoned.
Wut?
I am really glad and very priveleged to have been diagnosed with ADHD. However, I worry that my official diagnoses might put me in danger soon
In the Netherlands you can remove your ADHD diagnosis (at least when moving from child to adult care, if I recall correctly)
I wish I hadn’t been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis but mostly I wish I didn’t have it
Depression 100% I have lost so much of my youth to it, and even now with my meds and lifestyle changes it still finds its way back into my life. Hell, depression is the reason why I’m 21 and still in highschool! It’s an awful condition
Wouldn’t being undiagnosed, presumably without those meds, be worse though, not better?
Been in the same exact position :(
Hope you get to make up for the lost time
I will never be able to get a small engine private pilot license due to fainting, despite it literally never happening unless I’m standing up…
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I’ve got 10 hours in a little ultralight. Pre-diagnosis. I’m not looking to fly a jet fighter. I get more G’s in a hang glider.
…I agree with this one. You fainting in a plane turns you into a missile after all.
See, and this is why… Except, again, I only faint standing up. Ever.
It ain’t nothing, but fuckin eczema lol. Gotta lotion up every day and even then, sometimes you get random flare ups.
I’m not diagnosed and I’m seriously considering keeping it that way. My nephew is so hoping the political situation in the UK doesn’t go that way.
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No, not once. I’ve got ablot of issues due to nobody giving a shit when I was young making the tiniest effort to get shit diagnosed and properly taken care of. On top it was out of pure naivety due to the belief that if youre not diagbosed its not true and partly science denial.
Life
