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Did your doctor pick up on your autism on their own?

Peter

We are so used to the standard story for adult diagnosis. guy figures out he’s probably autistic then spend ages trying to persuade his doctor to refer him.

when I saw this clip (https://youtu.be/YVJD2G3JITU) I realised hey really it should be the  other way around. Our doctors shouldn’t need us to prompt them for them to pick up on our autism. After all they’re the experts.

so my question is, how many of you had a health professional bring up autism as a possible  diagnosis before you did?

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  • Not one, I was 27<28 when I was diagnosed. I would go so far as to say that they inhibited my diagnosis, by trying to throw Depression and Anxiety drugs in my face, the reason being that they were trying to deter me from getting in the waiting lists.
    My advice is to go to those early GP visits with your: Empathy, Systemising and Autism Quotients; in hand. Do your research!

  • in reply to DeSpereaux

    I have been on meds since 2001. At the time, I convinced myself that I had schizophrenia. However, it seemed to be Autism traits acting comorbid. 

  • in reply to Desmond79

    That's interesting to me Desmond as my community nurse has asked me a couple of times in the last few weeks if i agree with my Paranoid Schizophrenia diagnosis (i was diagnosed in 2017 and been on Olanzapine since). I told her that i did have delusional beliefs about my parents in the past but that i think most of my struggles have been due to being autistic and not knowing. Looking back nearly all my mental health problems have stemmed from my autism being missed (depression, low self-esteem, social anxiety....and i've been thinking over the last few weeks that the schizophrenia diagnosis isn't correct, or at least not the full story by any means

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  • in reply to Desmond79

    That's interesting to me Desmond as my community nurse has asked me a couple of times in the last few weeks if i agree with my Paranoid Schizophrenia diagnosis (i was diagnosed in 2017 and been on Olanzapine since). I told her that i did have delusional beliefs about my parents in the past but that i think most of my struggles have been due to being autistic and not knowing. Looking back nearly all my mental health problems have stemmed from my autism being missed (depression, low self-esteem, social anxiety....and i've been thinking over the last few weeks that the schizophrenia diagnosis isn't correct, or at least not the full story by any means

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