Do you ever think that maybe a diagnosis you received may have come back to bite you?

  • @SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee
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    237 hours ago

    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.

      • @Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        RFKjr is setting up a national autism registration and he’s already proposed to send neurodivergent people to farms. It’s pure Nazi eugenics.

        • @locuester@lemmy.zip
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          02 hours ago

          What?! Can you provide some sources on this?

          That seems to be complete nonsense. RFKjr is working to determine the cause of the increase in autism rates by linking datasets. Specifically looking into correlation with vaccines.

          There has never been talk of sending neurodivergent people to farms or camps.

        • @undrwater@lemmy.world
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          03 hours ago

          I did a search, and discovered articles pointing to sending addicts to farms. I couldn’t find anything similar for neurodivergent people.

          Can you link something?

  • Didros
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    76 hours ago

    …diagnosis from who?

    Myself: meh, I could be wrong, I’m not a professional.

    Doctor: hahahahaha what? What am I? Made of money?

  • @neilb@lemmy.ml
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    2510 hours ago

    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.

    • @Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      129 hours ago

      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 prevents you from jobs like airline pilots, the rationale being that placing someone potentially suicidal in control of a plane full of people isn’t a good idea. The rationale doesn’t really make total sense but you can see why they’d think that way.

      • ALoafOfBread
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        149 hours ago

        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.

  • @phanto@lemmy.ca
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    47 hours ago

    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…

    • @a9249@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      Airplanes pull G, making it far more intense than being standing. You would absolutely faint in a plane; this one is kinda fair, sorry bud.

      • @phanto@lemmy.ca
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        12 hours ago

        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.

    • Didros
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      13 hours ago

      …I agree with this one. You fainting in a plane turns you into a missile after all.

    • @myersguyA
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      138 hours ago

      I’m just so tired of checking every single ingredient list.

      Also tired of terms at restaurants like “Gluten Aware”, “Gluten Conscious”, etc. Then you find out everything is still going in the same fryer 🫤

      • @ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml
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        23 hours ago

        Also tired of terms at restaurants like “Gluten Aware”, “Gluten Conscious”, etc. Then you find out everything is still going in the same fryer

        At least they’re aware of it.

      • @sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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        58 hours ago

        Gluten appears to be pixie dust just thrown about in kitchens and mass food production facilities. It is shocking how much contains it or is near it.

        I haven’t heard of a gluten aware restaurant. But the term sounds irritating.

      • @sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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        66 hours ago

        I guess I was thinking if I didn’t have it, which means I could eat everything without having to ask a million questions or carefully researching products/ingredients.

        If I wasn’t diagnosed but still had it, I’d be very sick and malnourished.

  • @Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world
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    109 hours ago

    I’m 50/50. On one hand it’s interesting and good to know about yourself and your issues but it is a double-ended sword. I was diagnosed with ASPD a little while back among other things and while I’m glad I understand the root for a lot of my problematic traits I now also have a piece of paper that makes me look bad if I have to go to court.

  • @Bubberpillar@lemmy.ca
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    38 hours ago

    It ain’t nothing, but fuckin eczema lol. Gotta lotion up every day and even then, sometimes you get random flare ups.

  • The Giant Korean
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    27 hours ago

    It’s good to know that I was diagnosed with food allergies. I might not have ever known what was making me feel horrible all this time.

  • @NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    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

    • ddh
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      78 hours ago

      Wouldn’t being undiagnosed, presumably without those meds, be worse though, not better?