Published on 12, July, 2020
What led you seek diagnosis?
A year ago, I knew almost nothing about autism. Except the claim that it was caused by the MMR vaccine.
After my latest suicide attempt in Nov 2016, a mental health team got involved and they with my sister suspected that I might be autistic. They started talking about aspergers and I thought rubbish, I don't walk around shouting abuse at people. I mistook aspergers for touretts syndrome.
My sister suggested that a formal autism diagnosis would give me some protection under the 2011 disability act. And she said that she worked alongside people with an autism diagnosis, and I was worse than them.