So I plan to go to the GP on Monday and ask for a referral for a diagnosis. I would really like any help people can offer with trying to get this.
My GP can be very dismissive. I have been to them before hoped they would offer help. They only signed me up for an online CBT course which I am still waiting on. It is my hope that going with just this one thing will give better results. I was told by a councellor that I am autistic. I just really want to know one way or another. I have been going through a lot recently and being able to have this would help me regain some trust in myself. It's hard to describe how helpful this would be without getting into the rest of it. But it would I think really help, one way or another I just want to know.
I keep going back and forth between accepting that I am and thinking that I'm not. I have made some progress, I am certain I at least have some autistic traits but as everyone does that doesnt really help me. In some ways it would be a relief to be able to just say yes I am autistic, that's why you might see me as strange. Those parts of myself are generally the parts I like anyway. It would be helpful, in work in particular but in some other social situations to be able to say I was. It would explain a lot. And help people understand me. But right now I feel like a fraud if I try to say I am.
I never had a formal diagnosis but as a child I was diagnosed with dislexia. I spent a fair amount of time with the special needs department of my school for a year, this was the biggest part of my swing back towards, no I am not autistic. But I feel theet is something to it, I can't seem to put it down. I would just like an answer.
Sorry ramble. But the point is, how do I get that diagnosis? How do I get the doctors to listen?
