If I may? As a late-diagnosed autistic advocate, I would like to share my point of view on self-diagnosis so that any mental health experts or autistic people can see there are two sides to the self-diagnosis issue.

The mental health profession and neglected, at-risk autistic people who are desperately searching for the truth whether they are professionally, self, or undiagnosed…

Thank you, kindly.

https://jimirion.medium.com/why-self-diagnosis-must-be-discussed-ee22a05b0f8a

I also happen to have two informal theories about chronophobia and monotropism should they be of interest as well.