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Updated: Initial assessment today!

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I have my initial assessment at 1pm today and I'm so worried that they'll think I'm just weird and attention seeking and definitely not autistic! I'm imagining it being really humiliating to explain lots of personal reasons why I think I'm autistic just to be completely wrong...

I think I feel they're just going to say this is all anxiety and nothing else. 

Any words of advice from people who have been here?!

UPDATE: I did it! 

I have a headache now and I'm pretty tired. It took about 90 minutes and the assessor was really clear. At the end he told me I'd benefit from a full assessment to get a diagnosis as it would help me to explain my needs to people such as employers. I have to do a developmental history questionnaire next but I can try to answer it rather than needing a family member to so that helps. My mum is still finding it all a bit of a surprise I think and seems in denial of any difficulties I've had or have. I suspect she is actually autistic too.

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  • Hey! Loved reading this, and sending you much love.

    I haven't had a diagnosis yet, I've only done the AQ Quotient Questionnaire which came back as being on the spectrum and living with Aspergers. 

    I am learning day to day, and I have opened up the conversations with my family too. And I have had the same reply - 'It's in your head', 'Everyone is a little different and has different needs'. Really triggers me and makes my blood boil!

    Keep us updated on what happens next, seems as if the road to diagnosis needs strength and courage, which I feel you have, so keep going! Much love!

  • in reply to MileshGhedia
    MileshGhedia said:
    And I have had the same reply - 'It's in your head', 'Everyone is a little different and has different needs'. Really triggers me and makes my blood boil!

    All classics that can be turned around in each instance regarding:

    MileshGhedia said:
    'It's in your head'

    "Yes; it is medically recognised in part as being neurological condition ~ what with the physiology being a neurological system involving also the heart and gut brains."

    https://nariphaltan.org/gut.pdf

    MileshGhedia said:
    'Everyone is a little different and has different needs'.

    "Everyone is 'AT LEAST' a little bit different and some have very different needs ~ yes; most certainly!"

    Grin

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