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

I wonder how many times we have been to our GP with different complaints and masked. I went and told him I was suffering with depression, he remarked that I normally visited the surgery every 8-10 years, I was given antidepressants, it wasn’t his fault, he worked on the amount of information I was prepared to give, apparently I wasn’t producing enough serotonin. After 6 months I knew I didn’t feel any better, my old GP had just retired and I had a new young kid on the block, I did worry about a young GP, my adult son actually put me right, He told me that a young GP would have been to school, University and has most probably autistic friends, he was right.

When I first went to ask about AS the doctor asked me if I wanted meds, I said “no”, he said “good choice”..

Good doctor, I’ve read posts on here for over a year, some GP’s  are very receptive, others don’t even accept autism. It really shouldn’t be a lottery, how many older people have been asked, “ what do you hope to gain from a diagnosis?”

Yeah they tell us we are ‘wired differently’, that we have a social impairment, and in a sense they are right.
We do not understand people who do not think like us, we don’t understand in a neurotypical way, but that doesn’t mean that we cannot empathise with our own. 
We do a better job of acclimatising to the neurodiverse than neurotypicals, because we know how to play with a handicap, and we can pick up a second mask rather quickly.

Yeah they tell us we are ‘wired differently’, that we have a social impairment, and in a sense they are right.
We do not understand people who do not think like us, we don’t understand in a neurotypical way, but that doesn’t mean that we cannot empathise with our own. 
We do a better job of acclimatising to the neurodiverse than neurotypicals, because we know how to play with a handicap, and we can pick up a second mask rather quickly.