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Have i been misdiagnosed my whole life?

I've been to 3 psychologists who diagnosed me with Social Anxiety. The one i'm seeing now, is doing some tests on me and she's close to getting results. She asked me if i ever thought that maybe i could have something other than SAD and i said no. Today i got recommended a video about a girl who has autism and a lot of her symptoms are like mine, and now i'm thinking that maybe y psychologist is going to say i have some spectrum of autism. Now i'm very confused to the point where i don't even know my own symptoms anymore. Am i scared of being judged? Or i simply don't have the social skills to hold a conversation? I thought i knew what i had and now I'm scared i've been wrong my whole life, i'm 21. Maybe i gave her the wrong information, i barely remember everything i told her. I think what scares me the most is that sad has a "cure" but autism doesn't (from what i've been reading; i didn't do much research yet) and honestly i'm terrified of the possibility of living in the situation i'm in right now forever. I've tried cognitive behavioral therapy before and it didn't really work. I was expecting to get medicine prescriptions since they were my only hope of ever being calm in a social situation and enjoying it, but if i don't have SAD i won't be able to get them. I rarely go outside, i'm not living, i'm just existing and now having a personality crisis. What do i do :(
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