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Where is the challenge to wrong diagnosis?

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I may have been misdiagnosed as autistic. 
I can find no reference anywhere to this possibility.

Surely there must be a movement to challenge diagnosis or question it? 

  • in reply to Catlover

     I had mentioned to my counselling therapist in a session how hilarious it was that my brother commented on me taking things literally and asked if I was autistic.  My therapist suggested screening because the York centre was on the same site as his practice.. 
    Nobody had ever raised this prior to thos and even my GP was surprised  when I told him I was being considered for screening.  
    I put my name on the NHS waiting list and forgot about it until 2018 when I got the astonishing result. 
    57 years old now. 
    I feel demoralised about doing anything since diagnosis.  I felt bullied by the diagnosis like I was name-called in school. 

  • I’m wondering why you went for an autism assessment if you aren’t autistic?

    Or were you diagnosed as a child? 

  • in reply to rustyb

    It seems extremely common. Raises hand. A bit under a year post diagnosis. It waxes and wanes for me. I've sorta just decided to let time do it's thing ya know?

    Like a breakup. Desperately trying to "solve it" to start feeling better, but it doesn't help, and in the end, slowly the brain readjusts on its own. I figure maybe it's like that, and time will take care of it, regardless of what I consciously do.

    Many people here been through it and out the other side tho.

  • Do you mind if I ask why you think you may have been misdiagnosed?

    I ask as someone who was only diagnosed just over 2 weeks ago, and the thought has occurred to me several times. Prior to (and to a greater extent after) my diagnosis I did loads of research, and have found the sheer range of autistic experiences absolutely staggering. Some experiences I can’t relate to at all, other stories feel like they could have been written by me personally. 

    I’m told this kind of thing is pretty normal immediately after a diagnosis but it’s taking a bit of time to wrap my head around it all. 

  • You would need to be reassessed, I would think. Have you talked to your GP?

    This can go wrong in both directions; people missed when they are definately autistic, people can be misdiagnosed autistic, when they are otherwise neurodivergent or perhaps have an MH problem.

    It's important to examine why you feel your diagnosis does not fit and integrate that into your argument. It is also important to consider what other explanations there could be for what your experience.

    In the end no one can help themselves unless they know their truth.