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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? 

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  • 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.