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Serious question: Why?
Gathering data like this for "curiosity" is understandable, but too vague for medical and personal data.
Without a stated purpose, data can be presented to form any and all kinds of narratives.
Will it be used to form a tabloid piece about "overwhelming majority of people in autism community aren't actually autistic" fuelling some agenda against the "self-identifying victim mentality epidemic"? Because it can, whether it is the intention or not, and I want less of that.
Or is it used to form an opinion on whether a clinical self-diagnosis is important to people? Or difficult to get? If so, please word the questions differently.
Looks like autistic people like to make and keep lists of things whether useful or not.