trouble is that regular diagnosis, for more and more people, simply doesn't exist. like, even outside of :amerikkka: 's healthcare nightmare. Got a friend who's on a 2 year waitlist to talk with someone about maybe having autism here in :ukkk: , and I personally have to pay out of pocket for gender care that's honestly barely any better than self medding anyways. Also, I dunno, I know people who were part of self diag Tumblr and largely they were fuckin right (just also, at the time, teenagers in awful homes with nobody else to talk to about their brain stuff. teenagers tend to be cringe, as is their right)
had a shower & realised I forgot half the point of this post - not being able to access healthcare doesn't just mean that diagnosis has to be done by yourself, it also means that there's no professionals around to tell you that there's nothing majorly wrong with you. never had health anxiety with brain stuff but if it wasn't for free & accessible diagnostics I'd probably be constantly worried about having angina & kidney disease, two conditions that I do not have
trouble is that regular diagnosis, for more and more people, simply doesn't exist. like, even outside of :amerikkka: 's healthcare nightmare. Got a friend who's on a 2 year waitlist to talk with someone about maybe having autism here in :ukkk: , and I personally have to pay out of pocket for gender care that's honestly barely any better than self medding anyways. Also, I dunno, I know people who were part of self diag Tumblr and largely they were fuckin right (just also, at the time, teenagers in awful homes with nobody else to talk to about their brain stuff. teenagers tend to be cringe, as is their right)
had a shower & realised I forgot half the point of this post - not being able to access healthcare doesn't just mean that diagnosis has to be done by yourself, it also means that there's no professionals around to tell you that there's nothing majorly wrong with you. never had health anxiety with brain stuff but if it wasn't for free & accessible diagnostics I'd probably be constantly worried about having angina & kidney disease, two conditions that I do not have