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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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  • I have been under the care of the local mental health service for a number of years. They picked up my autism almost immediately. Sadly the formal diagnosis took a very long time to arrive. 
    Im quite old so there wasn’t such a thing when I was at school. People like me were called remedial.

    you have to love the early 1980’s.

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  • I have been under the care of the local mental health service for a number of years. They picked up my autism almost immediately. Sadly the formal diagnosis took a very long time to arrive. 
    Im quite old so there wasn’t such a thing when I was at school. People like me were called remedial.

    you have to love the early 1980’s.

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