Struggling with my coach's opinion on my ASD diagnosis

One thing I've found helps immensely and is still inteinsically part of the western autist experience: self-dx and being your own advocate. Try going to aspietests.org or embraceautism.net and take the whole battery of tests, especially the CAT-Q, and then save and print your results and show them to your doctors. If you score high-aspie, every test's results page will show a warning message that you should seek professional diagnosis. Just printing your results and letting the organization's warning speak for itself/you could be enough to actually get you the proper attention you need. Doctors can be pigheaded and slow to admit missing things or being wrong or having a patient get something before them. Let them feel like theyre telling *you* to follow their referral 🙄👍

You should ask to be referred to a specialist for testing, if you're not it was just whatever, but if you are it'd help you qualify for more benefits

In my opinion, unless it’s someone who is an autism specialist and has given you tests or observed you over time, they shouldn’t tell you s#it about what you are or aren’t. If you think you are and want a diagnosis, then pursue one b