Well from a different perspective... I waited seven long months for my ATOS medical and read all sorts of scary stuff about it on the internet - when the day came I was terrified and resigned to appealing. In reality it was ok - unpleasant but ok. The doctor was kind and had obviously read the form I had filled in previously. Lots of questions but I felt that my condition and the difficulties I have were understood and accepted. I got placed in the support group. As I understand it the medical thing/criteria has been changed quite recently to account for conditions such as autism. I was worried cause i never seem to quite fit into any of the boxes on forms but the "it varies" box helped. In hindsight I wish I'd never used google to look up all the horror stories! 
Well from a different perspective... I waited seven long months for my ATOS medical and read all sorts of scary stuff about it on the internet - when the day came I was terrified and resigned to appealing. In reality it was ok - unpleasant but ok. The doctor was kind and had obviously read the form I had filled in previously. Lots of questions but I felt that my condition and the difficulties I have were understood and accepted. I got placed in the support group. As I understand it the medical thing/criteria has been changed quite recently to account for conditions such as autism. I was worried cause i never seem to quite fit into any of the boxes on forms but the "it varies" box helped. In hindsight I wish I'd never used google to look up all the horror stories! 