So many great responses, thank you all.

It touched upon all my concerns and questions, and further avenues to do research when I have the time.

I think I’ll stick with self-identification for now, and use it for mainly personal and social settings. I think the sort of accommodations I would get with an official Autism diagnosis is already covered through my ADHD diagnosis, at least at this stage of my life.

We shall see if this remains the case as I progress through the tiresome testing of the ADHD meds, but I’ll not worry about the costs and additional work for now.

This is bad. I am not going to venerate Duterte like a liberal does with any world leader but it’s telling that Duterte out of many, many leaders out in this forsaken Earth they chose him, when he had the most China-friendly (ie. Independent) foreign and internal policies unlike the US sycophant running the Philippines now.