Something weird I notice in the aspie community and outside it, when someone thinks they might have aspergers/autism they oftentimes get met with the argument, why do you need a diagnosis, isn't it better that you just go on with your life? That labels are bad and you actually don't need a label for autism, that that label is actually harmful.

With any other diagnosis represented on this forum, would you say the same thing? It is better that you don't know you have depression, anxiety, dissociation, PTSD, bipolar etc? In most cases people would be shocked if I suggested it is better never to have a label with these things. But with autism... it is different.

Why IS this? It sounds really ridiculous. I understand the aspie community is afraid of being watered down with people with just mild autistic traits, even if the most verbal people within it, usually are pretty mild themselves. But the rest of the world, how the heck do they think? Do they think we GET autism if we get diagnosed? That we will just be lazy and terrible and abuse our label when we just need to straighten up and snap out of it?

What is the deal? Please explain.