Hi everyone,
This is my first post here so hello :-)
I went to my GP and asked for an Aspergers or autism referral because I think I may be on the spectrum, he agreed and gave me an AQ sheet to fill in, which I did and returned to him (I scored 42 out of 50).
So he referred me on 26th Feb this year 2018.
Having read a lot in several books and online and watched all the YouTube videos to give myself the confidence that I agree and can identify with loads of the traits and problems they have, I am pretty sure I have Aspergers.
I also thought I had it over 25 years ago (I’m 47 now) but I had little understanding of who I was back then and dismissed the idea, convincing myself that I just had social anxiety and OCD and not Aspergers.
On my journey to my self diagnosis, I started to notice that my wife identified with a lot of the traits too, so she went to the GP a couple of months later and got a referral too.
Both myself and my wife have just received our appointment letters for an assessment with a consultant psychiatrist on the same day, 6th July.
I have a few concerns over this because her appointment is at 11:00 am and mine is immediately after at 12:30 pm with the same psychiatrist. The letters state that it will be about 90mins to 2 hours appointment time too.
I don’t have any close relatives that can give an account of my childhood, all I have is my wife. So my wife will have to help me through my assessment immediately after me helping her through her assessment!!!
My questions are:
Has anyone else had this kind of scenario?
Will this affect our assessments, because if they do any tests to find out stuff, then it won’t be a surprise test for me because I will have already seen it!
Is it normal just to see one single psychiatrist for 90 mins? Shouldn’t it be a multi disciplinary team?
I have terrible memory and also find it hard to think of things like stuff I can’t do or difficulties I have, if I can’t think of things then they won’t see them and they won’t diagnose right.
Getting a diagnosis is important to me because my life would finally make sense, I know it wouldn’t change anything, but at least I would know why my life has been so difficult.
Thanks for reading
Ade
