Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm having a problem with my GP, he won't refer me for an autism assessment because in his eyes ( and the second opinion doctor ) people my age are rarely diagnosed because it's always caught in childhood.I know that's not true, more and more adults are being diagnosed.I had been seeing a psychiatrist a few years ago and he leaned on thinking I have BPD ( I looked at his Twitter page, he seems like posting about BPD)I researched BPD and though I did understand it, it didn't match what I go through or how I feel.I've been called autistic since school, though I never knew what it was.I was getting called the same thing when I joined college, so I started looking it up and they actually seem to be right. Not all of those people were being cruel, some said they had autism themselves or had family who did.The GP won't listen, and I'm going to have a huge problem trying to pay for a private assessment.What the hell should I do?
Well, I'm a late-diagnosed autistic and I was selectively mute for 3 months straight when I started infant school. Then I was selectively mute at school on-and-off for shorter periods of time for years afterwards. This was just ignored because I spoke fluently at home. If anything was shouting that I had a problem, I think that should have done the trick. I think that If you were in the school system before around the mid 1990s if you had anything other than very severe and obvious problems caused by autism, you would not have been considered for assessment, never mind received a diagnosis.