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Denied full diagnostic assessment

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Just finished my triage appointment with the BASS service and got told they wont recommend me for a full assessment as I'm functioning. I'm really distraught and I genuinely think theyre wrong but I am not sure where to go from here.

Previous post discussing wait times community.autism.org.uk/.../bass-waiting-list-times-bath-bristol

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This was the reply to the email I sent to the diagnosis centre in Devon as I am moving back this summer and this was the reply. I am unsure if I have technically been assessed as BASS stated this was a triage to see if they though I needed an assessment and was basically a repeat of the questions on their referral questionnaire 

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  • I think that the diagnostic criteria have a section about your ASC having a debilitating effect on daily life: "Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning". This does not mean that you have to be unable to function in daily life, just that you have impairment. This can be many things, like finding it difficult to make phone calls, finding social occasions so stressful that you would prefer to avoid them (even if you do attend), finding crowded places stressful and avoiding them, being misunderstood in conversations or misunderstanding others - the possible list is practically endless. The takeaway message is not whether or not you can function, but the amount of distress and exhaustion you experience in managing to function. The people who assessed you do not seem to understand this. It is like saying to someone with only one foot that they cannot be disabled because they can manage to struggle across a hundred yards on crutches. They were functional in being able to move a certain distance, but they still had a missing foot. Get a second opinion from people who are competent.

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  • I think that the diagnostic criteria have a section about your ASC having a debilitating effect on daily life: "Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning". This does not mean that you have to be unable to function in daily life, just that you have impairment. This can be many things, like finding it difficult to make phone calls, finding social occasions so stressful that you would prefer to avoid them (even if you do attend), finding crowded places stressful and avoiding them, being misunderstood in conversations or misunderstanding others - the possible list is practically endless. The takeaway message is not whether or not you can function, but the amount of distress and exhaustion you experience in managing to function. The people who assessed you do not seem to understand this. It is like saying to someone with only one foot that they cannot be disabled because they can manage to struggle across a hundred yards on crutches. They were functional in being able to move a certain distance, but they still had a missing foot. Get a second opinion from people who are competent.

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