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can you accept a different diagnoses?
Yes! as long as it makes sense 43%  43%  [ 15 ]
No, nothing else fits! 14%  14%  [ 5 ]
yes, but, its unlikely because i got tested for other things and ASD is the only thing that fits 14%  14%  [ 5 ]
No, i like my ASD diagnoses, i dont want something different 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
i dont know, i didnt look at other possible diagnoses' 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
i dont even think ASD is an accurate diagnoses for me, 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
what are you even talking about 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
i like turtles 20%  20%  [ 7 ]
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29 Jan 2014, 9:24 am

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I would like to have another diagnosis. I'm sick of people only seeing the ASD. Even if I am correctly diagnosed, it isn't my main problem and I deserve the same treatments that NTs can get.


I can relate. I have both autism and PTSD, and autism 'experts' always seem to blame my PTSD symptoms on my autism and react in totally inappropriate ways. Then again, I'm not sure those people are much help to people with just autism, either. Treating a person having a meltdown like they're a spoiled child is completely terrifying when they're having flashbacks of abuse, but it's also not very good for someone who's overloaded or freaked out by a change in routine either. Whatever happened to simply showing compassion? That works for pretty much everyone.



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29 Jan 2014, 9:31 am

So I´d ask a second professional oppinion about it, but if it seems reasonable surely I´d accept it. But I dont really think, that there is so much chance about it, so before I was sent to the autism-specialist centre for diagnosis, I had to do several visits with an psychiatrist, whose job was it to test for similar diseases/syndroms.(Social phobia, a certain kind of schizophrenia, and knows hell what...) He did so without me knowing about it, I read about it afterwards the autism diagnosis, when I got the folder with all the medical documents, including the paper that the psychiatrist wrote to the autism centre, when he sent me there for suspect of Aspegers.

But if it happened I´d feel really bad about it. Not in the way that I´d like to have Aspergers by all means, but with that the diagnosis circle, and that running from doctors to specialists..., which causes me lots of troubles, would start again. :(