Hardly. Takes a lot to get diagnosed and they go all the way back to looking at how you acted as a child and even how you were as a toddler and your whole development. Sensory issues are one of the biggest symptoms of aspergers/autism and you almost have to have some kind of big sensory issue to get an official diagnosis. It's nothing that anyone blames, everyone on the spectrum is very different and has different difficulties but everyone certainly has difficulties to different degrees and i've met 0 aspies/autists who think of their diagnosis as something fun that they can use to get out of things or just blame to not have to do stuff. Many are very upset that they can't do things neurotypicals can do with ease, for example physical relationships, or that they have to fight much much harder to pull it off. I'd suggest you educate yourself a little, get some compassion and stop undermining peoples struggles. It doesn't take much to be an asshole but it's way better to be kind especially to people who've already faced a lot of misunderstanding in life and had to fight to get to where they are now. This is why many people feel forced to mask so none of their symptoms are ever visible which drains lots of energy and makes life exhausting.
For me getting a diagnosis was simply a relief because I can understand myself better and how other people saw me as a child especially before I learned to mask and I didn't understand why others did not "get" me. I can get therapy for things that are difficult for me and take things at my pace. It's made me more confident that way actually because before I never understood why things like physical touch was uncomfortable to me and thought something was terribly wrong with me but now I know that's not the case and that there are many other people like me.
IIN I'm very weird about physical touch?
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Hardly. Takes a lot to get diagnosed and they go all the way back to looking at how you acted as a child and even how you were as a toddler and your whole development. Sensory issues are one of the biggest symptoms of aspergers/autism and you almost have to have some kind of big sensory issue to get an official diagnosis. It's nothing that anyone blames, everyone on the spectrum is very different and has different difficulties but everyone certainly has difficulties to different degrees and i've met 0 aspies/autists who think of their diagnosis as something fun that they can use to get out of things or just blame to not have to do stuff. Many are very upset that they can't do things neurotypicals can do with ease, for example physical relationships, or that they have to fight much much harder to pull it off. I'd suggest you educate yourself a little, get some compassion and stop undermining peoples struggles. It doesn't take much to be an asshole but it's way better to be kind especially to people who've already faced a lot of misunderstanding in life and had to fight to get to where they are now. This is why many people feel forced to mask so none of their symptoms are ever visible which drains lots of energy and makes life exhausting.
For me getting a diagnosis was simply a relief because I can understand myself better and how other people saw me as a child especially before I learned to mask and I didn't understand why others did not "get" me. I can get therapy for things that are difficult for me and take things at my pace. It's made me more confident that way actually because before I never understood why things like physical touch was uncomfortable to me and thought something was terribly wrong with me but now I know that's not the case and that there are many other people like me.