A Formal Diagnosis.

As far as the journey goes, I'll I'll concise my question here. As far as the journey goes, self-discovery and self-advocacy. When we're thinking that you know, maybe I am autistic, maybe I am ADHD, maybe I am this. And and and taking that path and advocating for yourself.

I didn't hear a question in there. I'll extrapolate. Yeah. I mean, a lot of the, I mean, this topic comes up a lot of like kind of trying to navigate, you know, self-advocacy and self-diagnosis versus formal diagnosis we did do. An episode on formal, like, you know, the pros and cons of doing a formal diagnosis.

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So I think that would be. A great space for people to go back and listen to something that they are kind of in the midst of experiencing. And that is so, in my opinion. Tweet on my profile.

I have a link to all of the spaces that I've done so far and the What is Autism series. So like it's just like the title and then a link to the space. I think all of the recordings are still available. Last time I checked, they're all still there.

But I think, you know, that this is an important piece of it, especially just kind of trying to navigate, like, so if I myself am trying to differentiate between, you know, what do for, me,e li mee do I? Am I neurodivergent, gent, or do I just have just endured a lot of trauma, and like that's why I'm experiencing the struggles that I am?

And so then if y ou like to add autism or other neurodivergencies on top of that, you can see how it can just aid. In like a lot of complexity and a lot of need to kind of. Unravel and like. Kind of unstack some of those pieces to try to figure out like what's what and like what's connected to what and what came first. Like the whole like chicken and the eggs scenario.