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The other comments have covered a lot of the potential positives of a getting a diagnosis. Here’s an article written by an autistic doctor on some of the drawbacks:

https://archive.ph/J6tXc (Archive link because medium wasn’t showing the whole thing.)

In short, there’s a lot of ableism, so it’s important to think about what benefits you will personally receive from a formal diagnosis.

I’m not trying to dissuade you from getting one if it’s something that you want to do you should go for it. I just wanted to share some info that made me think getting a formal diagnosis wasn’t right for me.

Oh wow that is impressive. I wonder what the power draw is like with them being based on server ARM chips

Thanks! I was looking it over and something stood out to me.

For comparison, 2.8% of the United States population is currently incarcerated, millions more than were ever imprisoned in Soviet gulags.[1]

Can I ask where that 2.8% figure came from? That’s almost 10 million people and seemed like it was quite high to me. I followed the reference number to a blog which has this quote:

“In a rather small news item appearing in the newspapers of August 1997, the FLT-AP news agency reported that in the US there had never previously been so many people in the prison system as the 5.5 million held in 1996. This represents an increase of 200,000 people since 1995 and means that the number of criminals in the US equals 2.8% of the adult population. These data are available to all those who are part of the North American department of justice….

I tried but I didn’t see this FLT-AP source in their references section and couldn’t find it with a quick Google. This is several times larger than the number reported by the Bureau of “Justice” so I wanted to check the source to see why there was such a large disparity. I’m not saying the figure is wrong, but maybe it would be helpful to briefly explain why there is such a stark difference from the government source.

Also the prolewiki page says “currently incarcerated” and the reference is referring to nearly 30 years ago. The 2.8% figure could still be accurate, but maybe a different source should be used to back that up.

Sorry for the criticism. I really do appreciate the work you and the other editors have put in! I know very little about this subject, but feel like I learned a bit by reading the page.

Oh I didn’t know there were talk pages. Yeah I agree an apples to apples comparison would be good, but if you don’t have that it’s probably best to not include it.

I’m not as educated on the subject as you seem to be, but I think I fall in the determinism camp as well. Can I ask how it impacts how you live your life? For me I think I mostly just ignore it/live as if I did have free will

Yeah I agree with that. I may have used the wrong term. It doesn’t impact my life either. But for some reason that doesn’t feel like a satisfying answer so I wanted to ask to see if anyone thinks about it differently

You should check out MLK’S whole letter if you haven’t read it before

Same here but I’m not officially diagnosed. I’ve been saving the videos saying that I’ll come back to them later, but somehow I haven’t done that yet even though I started over a year ago. I don’t know how common it is either but that’s at least two of us

Spyware made by an Israeli cyber-arms company that’s been used to target journalists, etc.