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Adult autism diagnostic services not universal in the UK?

Jenny Butterfly

Following on from a query that arose in the Futurelearn Understanding Autism course (which I'm enjoying for the second time now), I'm wondering if there are still areas in the Uk that have no diagnostic services. 

i found this on the NAS website - "In 2009, most areas in England didn’t have an adult diagnosis service. Now almost all (93%) do."  Is that figure still current and does that mean there are still 7% of areas in England which have nothing?  I'm shocked.  What are people in these areas supposed to do?  Does anyone here live in such an area?

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  • I certainly finally got my diagnosis in 2021 after trying since 2019 and even then, the diagnosis was carried out via Zoom online - I was here in GM and the therapist was elsewhere in the U.K. with a lot of exchange of emails between us both and with strong input from my family in the Republic of Ireland - because they are traditional Irish Catholics, they were concerned to ensure that traditional Irish Catholic Social Teaching was being followed, even here in the U.K. in relation to the management and all other aspects of my particular case at all stages 

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  • I certainly finally got my diagnosis in 2021 after trying since 2019 and even then, the diagnosis was carried out via Zoom online - I was here in GM and the therapist was elsewhere in the U.K. with a lot of exchange of emails between us both and with strong input from my family in the Republic of Ireland - because they are traditional Irish Catholics, they were concerned to ensure that traditional Irish Catholic Social Teaching was being followed, even here in the U.K. in relation to the management and all other aspects of my particular case at all stages 

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