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Not the labels per se but being able to identify patterns and processes can be a comfort and even helpful if you have the right guidance and support system.

For example, identifying habitual masking (even when unnecessary) and making the decision not to mask can be helpful when socialising by conserving energy and making them more meaningful without the doubt and shame of “faking it”. Also giving yourself credit for feeling emotions and stimuli intensely and deciding for yourself to move away from to self-regulate.

The “label” should be foremost for you, hence why some don’t feel comfortable getting an official diagnosis (especially in the U.S.)

Respectfully, do you recall a source or reference? I’d personally like to know if this another one of those “take for granted” childhood facts

Surface-level I get it but, similar to the McGuire Spider-Man glasses meme, the original context reverses the message awkwardly (Don is notoriously insecure about his image and power dynamic and had spent the entire episode trying to figure out how to one-up his younger co-worker)