I have such mixed feelings about this sort of diagnosis. I don&#x27;t for an instant deny that she may well fit the criteria and that autism and aspergers are both very real, but I find the seemingly increasing need for people to have a label, a category, a diagnosis, a reason... disturbing.<p>ADHD is the classic example of this. Were I school age today I would almost certainly have been given the dual badges of ADHD and aspergers - my brother, who is seven years my junior, is labelled as both. Me, I&#x27;m just eccentric.<p>Why this bothers me is the outcome it can lead to. Having a &quot;reason&quot; for you being as you are leads to self-justification, to complacency at one&#x27;s station in life. In his case he&#x27;s medicated and in the eighth year of an undergraduate degree. I finished my masters in two years and founded a startup two years later as I am incapable of sitting still. I <i>like</i> being an undiagnosed creature, as I&#x27;ve ended up finding something that suits those traits in me, rather than suffering from them.<p>I know this is anecdotal, and this really isn&#x27;t done diatribe against mental healthcare - plenty genuinely need it - but I worry that too many engage in that funnel out of some misdirected need to conform, and end up losing part of what and who they are.