Some self-diagnosis does happen in the absence of substantial impairment warranting professional help. However, such self-diagnosis is often conceptualized in non-disordered, non-clinical ways, such as neurodivergence. Hence, however people may feel about seemingly functional, nerdy, socially awkward individuals using the term “autism” to refer to themselves, it is not an instance of clinical overdiagnosis. It is an instance of people reclaiming a clinical concept and extending it beyond the clinical sphere because of its epistemic value, because it allows them to make better sense of who they are.