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Waiting for my report

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I had my assessment this past wednesday after being on the waiting list for 3 years. all in all the assessment only took about 1hr 40mins, and i had my mum with me. im waiting for my formal report to come through which could be about 8 weeks and its making me so anxious. the assessor told me he is as sure as he can be i am autistic, but im still really anxious, which i was not expecting. 

I've seen a lot of post about assessments being drawn out to multiple session and over periods of time so how quick it happened also has me anxious. im just a big anxious mess honestly. 

i already have some mental health diagnoses and they were also done quickly in one session instead of over time. am i silly to be worried about all of this?

  • I don't think your anxiety about this particular situation should trouble your conscience, as the anxiety is natural and, in the circumstances, very understandable. Putting yourself forward for an Autism assessment is like asking to be believed...and then you have all the tension of waiting for other people's verdict; yet it is you who has the lived experience of your condition (whatever it may turn out to be).

    Oscar Wilde wrote that all trials are trials for one's life: fighting and arguing for the right to be recognised for what you believe you are and, essentially, the right to live as you wish. The whole process you're undergoing is a kind of trial, a test in which it's vital to you that you 'pass'. But, unless you are credibly informed to the contrary, I believe that you *know* whether you're autistic or not, if you've educated yourself about the general symptoms and so on. Memories of your childhood and beyond will inform your opinion - some incidents and behaviours will simply *glare* once you look back and examine them anew.

    As for waiting times etc, it's an absolute lottery all-round - my waiting time is nine months; yours was three years. That vast difference says it all.

    Best of luck to you. Believe most of all in yourself.  Slight smile