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WHATEVER your diagnosis is, doctors can help with the physical part (hearing aids, writing a letter to diagnose you for assistance in school) or refer out to specialists.  If you have autism or autistic tendencies (symptoms) there is assistance.  Assistance can help you with social skills if those are hard or communication or with focusing on school.  It can get you notetakers, personal aids, longer test time for quizzes... whatever puts you equal to your classmates.  You said your parents want you to go to the university.  If you have documented hearing problems and you get support or tools to work around your hearing loss based on tests and letters from your doctor, you have a better chance at an education.  It doesn't seem to me that your parents could argue that.  In the USA as well as overseas (I grew up in German, France, Holland, Belgium, England) a disability is a disability.  A child with hearing problems gets support for those problems.  A child with a learning or developmental or social disability gets assistance with that. 


See a doctor.  It doesn't matter how or why you have your symptoms.  If you want more encouragement for your parents to support you make a point that having you diagnosed or treated means you get the best shot at a great education.


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