Hello everyone
I posted back in November about how difficult I was finding the assessment process. I kept at it really thniking it was a process of elimination and that I'd be diagnosed with something else. I remember being given a choice of whether or not I wanted to accept it, so felt if I was diagnosed I'd have that choice, but I didn't. The choice I was given was that I didn't need to tell anyone but that they had to tell my GP.
I've already - in a week - experienced direct discrimination when being brave and telling someone in a position of authority about my Autism. At the outset, this was my main concern with a diagnosis and being labelled was that it would mean anytime there was conflict between people it would always be the 'Autistic' who had the problem. I feel I've made a big mistake with the diagnosis, and at my age really, what was the point of one. I still fee the same, all this has done is made things more difficult as I feel less heard now than I did before.
I am utterly depressed and are considering having a life on the streets, as I cannot cope any longer with having to deal with people.....
Thanks for listening..