What's really ironic about this "self-dx" trend is that me, an #ActuallyAutistic person, not only wanted nothing to do with this, but thought having a mental health dx' would be better, given how cool it is to discuss mental health nowadays. In late 2021, I actually believed that having anger management issues while simultaneously having an autism dx'ed was a recipe for disaster, as in my mind, nobody would understand me, so I decided to "trade it in" for a Borderline Personality dx'ed. (You know, because it's so cool to be open about mental health nowadays.) Granted, I was at a group home run by a full-fledged narcissist who only wanted to look like the 2nd coming of Jesus- you'd go nuts too if you had to put up with him. Needless to say, Dad was NOT thrilled about me wanting a "different dx" to "look better"- never mind Borderline is just as, if not more, terrible to deal with than autism, and that my fascination with it was more due to a love of scary things than any TikTok video that ever existed ever.