I'm Not Mentally Ill, But Adults Insisted I Was

Our mental health obsession encourages dangerous misdiagnoses

Many see a label like autism as a lifesaver. Those who discover their diagnoses as adults usually wish they’d received them as children. Getting the label back then, these adult autistic folks say, would have spared them much frustration and pain. So it’s no wonder is so eager to identify autistic children.

But there is another side to the story: Misdia…