THANK YOU. oh my god. I have never wondered about myself. I know I'm strange. I know I'm obsessive. I know I have high sensory needs and I was the weirdo who'd cry over eating an apple. It's been drilled into me since I was old enough to be bullied for it.

My functional capacity hit such a low point from comorbid PTSD and my own developmental disability (ADHD dx'd, autism assessment next after trauma therapy), I literally feared I had a brain tumor. The neuropsych was the LAST stop, not the first.

I worked so, so hard in my early 20s. I have emptied my savings dealing with this. It's not a privilege to have no choice but seek DX for literally whatever the fuck it is just so I have legally protected workplace accommodations.

It IS a privilege to see DX as some cutesy identity confirmation. It IS privilege to spend more time complaining on reddit than applying to medicaid or asking local clinics about their rates for uninsured rates. It IS privilege to spread false info like OP about healthcare access in the United States, because feeling oppressed is more important than sharing resources to help sincerely disadvantaged people