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If you can afford it, do it. It will help you when you need to get accommodations at work.
And if you were in a special education class, you had a diagnosis. It's likely your diagnostician was arranged by the school (they tend to work for social services, and they have access to schools because a lot of needs for their services are first identified when kids go to school and interact with others for the first time), and a diagnosis was a part of getting you into special education.
I'll openly admit that the last time I did it, it was mostly to update diagnoses (I was late-diagnosed, but that was still in the 20th Century) and ensure that my therapist actually knew all my diagnoses. Because she didn't. Hell, my shrink never ran the full workup because they were able to get the info relevant to treatment from my GP.