@iamada@tech.lgbt ~maybe?
Tl;dr if will give you peace of mind then do it.
With the caveat the self diagnosis is valid and useful.
I wanted to get professional confirmation that I was correctly seeing the pattern in the data. Which you know is a very autistic thing to want, which is kind of a self reinforcing loop. Which going through the motions with a psychologist got me out of.
I was told point blank that seeking an autism diagnosis as an adult isn’t something non autistic people do to a reasonable degree of statistical certainty.