gamerdad wrote:
Also keep in mind the possibility that you could be on the spectrum, but not diagnoseable. Many people display autistic traits. But a psychological diagnosis requires more than just the expression of those traits, it requires that they impair you to a degree that you need some sort of support. People who have consistently autistic traits, but fall below that hurdle (which is subjective and will vary from one psychologist to another) are considered to be part of the Broad Autistic Phenotype. That knowledge might help soften some of the blow if you continue to get negative diagnoses.
I have just had precisely the same situation in the UK (read the thread I started on " Adult diagnosis, Do Doctors really know what they are doing?"
http://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=290466gamerdads comment above is precisely the point. I do not think that under the new DSM5 guidelines and the NHS triage system that my mild Aspergers and
`mostly` coping in everyday life qualify under the criteria for issues to be (what they consider as) life affecting or needing levels 1,2 or 3 support (ie 1. lots, 2. considerable and 3.some) . In other words not serious enough to require resources (funding). I also wonder that if they acknowledge us they are legally bound to spend money on supporting us and hence will triage the money for only the most severe or obvious/observable cases.
I seriously question the will, the skill and the diagnostic tools available to diagnose adults.
Its not you!........
A `learned` Professor expert in Aspergers told me that I was not Autistic after a 20 minute chat!.
Note he used the word Autistic not Aspergers, and he (like you) did this BEFORE he had calculated my test scores AQ EQ etc which all had me categorically in the Aspie range.... what kind of illogical method is that!... we are fuming and I have written to complain (NB. After 4 hours of meetings & discussion, my personal therapist (an Aspergers expert too) sees me as having many Aspergers traits).
These situations are a mess and you have every right to be pissed off about this.
Read up, trust yourself and those around you.... you are the real expert.
Like an earlier poster succinctly said, if you really need validation o rthe actual medical support through diagnosis get a 2nd opinion, OR
begin to learn to accept your own judgement... and forge your own path... I am beginning to realise that the latter may be more useful to me and the former could be just expending a lot of energy to gt something that may ultimately be untrustworthy anyway!
23 Aug 2015, 4:49 pm
