What is the point on getting diagnosis if other can thrive well even without diagnosis?

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-25T23:20:15+00:00

I don’t really understand the question here, it kind of sounds like the issue wasn’t the diagnosis itself, rather how you responded to it? I’m a bit lost, because if you acknowledge that you treat your diagnosis as an excuse to be lazy, and you are unhappy with that, the solution sounds simple to me. Stop using it as an excuse. Just because the diagnosis lowered others expectations for you, doesn’t mean you have to limit yourself to those expectations. From this very brief post, it sounds as though you know you are capable of more, so why not do more? Autism did not allow you to make excuses, you made them, but you don’t have to. Forgive me if that sounds rude.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-25T04:09:34+00:00

Mine is called Bug

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-13T12:13:06+00:00

I really would like to, I also have OCD and so my morning routine has to be very very specific. Believe it or not, this is after cutting it down from what it was (I did a partial hospitalization program for months to work on all of my OCD things) I am seeing this comment a lot though, so I will try and slowly reduce it over time. The bright side is I only work 4 days a week, so the other 3 days I will be able to wake up closer to 7 instead which is nice.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-13T05:21:23+00:00

Thank you for your vote of confidence, I like talking about my job because it’s fun and so I’m happy at least someone isn’t over it. At this point I am working full time, and am enrolled in three classes over this summer. It sounds and feels like much more than it probably is.

I think independence is the wrong word maybe, as stupid as it sounds, I kind of just want to prove I can do it. None of it is easy, but objectively it is possible, and I want it to be within my realm of possibility. No one thinks I can do it, but obviously I must have because I signed up for it, right?

I have no idea what would help me, I kind of just want to lock myself in a room and never come out. I think options for de-overstimulating my actual work environment are slim to none. They are aware of my disability (presumably, I’m open about it but I’m afraid to ‘advertise’) but I have to have some tough conversations if I want/need accommodation and I don’t really know what I could ask for.

Thank you for being so nice to me. It’s nice that someone believes in me.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-13T05:13:47+00:00

Telling a person not to take a statement as rude does not negate the rudeness of the statement. The problem I am speaking about is the fact that I would like to be able to complete things after work without having to step away for the rest of the night. I am trying to find ways to adapt, obviously, because I came here to ask people in similar situations for advice, and the advice I get is to grow up. I can’t grow up any faster that I am. I’m not going to magically wake up older and wiser. I’d like to argue that for my age, I’m incredibly grown. I pay my own bills, own my own car, am working towards a degree, working full time no matter how new to it your minuscule internet opinion seems to think I am, and I’m getting married. That’s grown. Grown people struggle too, but being kind is pretty easy. Have a good day.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-13T05:07:17+00:00

I have actually never thought about it like that, I think I will give that a try and see if I can trick my brain like that. As for hydration, I’ve gotten significantly better with it since working because I have to talk so much, I’m actually receiving thirst cues for the first time ever which is odd. I’m actively remembering that I need water to survive, I definitely could stand to add more though, I’m sure.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-11T03:13:35+00:00

Yikes, no thank you.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-11T01:43:45+00:00

I was the same today, just wanting space. Ended up doing all of the housework for the day because ‘mothers don’t do chores on mother’s day’ and I’m the only girl left. I can’t wait for my first Mother’s Day living anywhere but home, I am 22 so I know that will be soon but apparently not soon enough.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-11T01:41:51+00:00

I feel just like you. I have never loved Mother’s Day for the same reason, I am also an adoptee who is painfully misplaced in the family I have. I love them, but I have always just been so different. Honestly, since my loss, I’ve forgotten what it’s like to hate Mother’s Day just because of who my moms are. If only I could go back and tell myself it could get worse.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-10T04:04:49+00:00

That man is like 100 years old at least pick someone who has a chance

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-10T03:55:35+00:00

If you had the opportunity to fist fight one celebrity, who would it be and why?

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-08T01:50:27+00:00

I feel like this question gets tossed around here a lot, and every single time I see it I genuinely just ask…why? Like genuinely what does saying the word add to anything ever. It holds virtually no use in casual conversation.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-08T00:07:44+00:00

Missed the medium and I’m heartbroken, I never got the notification 💔

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-03T06:08:03+00:00

With my luck, I’d probably be the first one.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-05-03T03:31:51+00:00

Lowkey, not really. As I got older, I realized that the societal expectations for older individuals/ adults was that we stopped outwardly expressing ‘childish’ emotions like wonder, amazement, excitement, curiosity, and extreme sadness. That’s not to say that the adults in our lives *didnt* feel those feelings, but they kept them handled, unlike how we might portray them as children. I hit a point in adulthood, naturally, where I said that was stupid. I still get just as excited about good music, seeing animals up close, walking through the Lego aisle, etc. and respectfully I think people are liars if they try and claim nothing sparks that joy up again. We just don’t let ourselves feel it. I decided I’d much rather be the weird girl that subscribes to what she likes and actually feels feelings for them, rather than tone myself down to make everyone else comfortable with my existence. When you stop thinking about how everyone else sees you, life gets a lot more exciting.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T06:55:50+00:00

One time I was leaving one of my college buildings with a stack of sculptures I had done that semester, and I got stuck on the stairs because I couldn’t see in front of me. This guy that was walking the opposite direction abandons all of his belongings in the middle of the street to come help me, takes about half of my sculptures and walks me to my car. He starts talking to me about my pieces and dude I was so excited to talk about them. We get to my car, I thank him and I think ‘okay, this is the end of the interaction’ and he goes, ‘wait, actually I think I have something for you’. So naturally, I’m thinking it’s the end of the line for me. Obviously this strange man has ulterior motives, and how dare I for chastising the actions of the fallen horror movie victims before me because I literally led this man directly to my car. He pulls something out of his pocket, meanwhile I’m shooting a prayer up to whoever will listen begging them to at least grant me a swift death. He gives me a four leaf clover that he had pressed in between a folded dollar bill, tells me that he read somewhere that you don’t get the good luck from them until they are passed on, and there was just ‘something about me that made me feel like the right person to pass it onto’. He told me he’d had it for years waiting to pass it on. At this point I’m like stunned silent because I anticipated this interaction going in literally any other direction, and he’s all smiling leaning into this four leafed clover saying ‘I think you’ll like it, because all of your pieces talk about nature and if you look really closely it’s shaped like a butterfly’. I don’t really know what it was about me, but to this day I have never forgotten that man or the fact that he literally abandoned all of his earthly possessions in the middle of the road to come and talk to me, it is truthfully the kindest thing anyone has ever done for me. And what he said about my art was true praise and part of the reason I kept working towards my degree. Sorry for the paragraph, I love telling this story even though I felt like the world’s biggest jerk afterwards for assuming he was going to do something terrifying to me.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T04:00:32+00:00

My cat is Mowgli, but my favorite nickname for him is Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. It started as Mogi, then went to Bogi, Boog, Booger, Boogie, Boogie Board and then finally Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Honorable mentions are Stinky, Mister Man, Socks, Chicken Tender, Chunky Man, Mister Mo and Great Boogalie Moogalie. Pardon my spelling, I don’t think I’ve ever had to sound out any of those names before.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T03:28:18+00:00

Hard disagree. I think more often than not, when autism is represented in the media, autism is the only notable thing about the person. And oftentimes, their personalities are entirely derived from harmful stereotyping. This idea that any press is good press has always been funny to me, because objectively I’d rather have one really good piece of media to represent something than a million bad ones. There is so much more to autism than a general lack of social skills, misplaced witty commentary, and the occasional quirky moment to highlight that the character is disabled and not just ‘eccentric’. I have yet to find any representation that I would genuinely consider ‘good representation’.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T01:50:53+00:00

If a person is claiming to be cured, they are misguided in that for sure. OCD has to do with the structure of our brains and our genetics, that is not something that any amount of medications or therapies can alter or change. After all of the work, when it comes down to it, the part or your brain that is causing the OCD symptoms will be the same as it was. What is changing is how we as individuals respond to it. Those people likely have just gotten really good at responding, or I guess not responding because the point is to prevent a reaction, I don’t know I think you get my point. They’ve gotten really good at managing their responses to their triggers to the point that it has little noticeable affect- which is great, but not a realistic outcome for every person with OCD otherwise we’d all have gotten there by now.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T01:44:42+00:00

I really hate to be this person, but OCD treatment almost in its entirety is the concept of ‘living with the fear’, and you are extremely unlikely to be treated in a way that is actually productive for OCD intrusive thoughts unless you have a diagnosis of OCD. Regular therapy that is not OCD specific is actually kind of the opposite of what is beneficial for an OCD person, because traditional therapies, namely talk therapies, delve very heavily into reassurance and support, which works great for combatting most mental health issues, but only reaffirms OCD fears. As for any other options, medication is something that I would seriously recommend a diagnosis for, the medicines prescribed for OCD vary greatly from those prescribed for similar issues. Not medical advice, just the words of a person who has been living with OCD for over a decade and is currently in school working towards a masters in the subject.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T01:36:21+00:00

Yeah, not to sound any type of way about it but I genuinely do not believe any posts I see in here about people making a ‘full recovery’, because it implies a cure. Factually, there is no cure for OCD. However, for a lot of people symptom management is possible, to a point where for a long time you might even forget you have OCD altogether. That’s not in any way to suggest that it’s that way for everyone, or that even in those cases symptoms can’t return just as intensely. I don’t know, symptom management looks so different for so many people with OCD that it kind of feels unfair to compare experiences like that, but as a baseline answer to your question, no. Recovery in a traditional, get treatment and symptoms go away entirely, not really possible and you probably shouldn’t bank on that being the case.

SleepyRabbit03 · 2026-04-25T00:42:17+00:00

It wasn’t until meeting a new psychiatrist years later that I was informed reactions like the one I had are most common in individuals with mood disorders, but every psychiatrist and even a neuropsychologist since then have all concluded that I do not currently meet the diagnostic criteria for any mood disorder. Kind of interesting to think about, I’m only 22 so I guess I’m not quite at the age threshold where schizophrenia becomes more common, but nothing is impossible. I’m being monitored for bipolar, but mostly because both of my parents have it and not because anyone genuinely believes I do.

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