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16 days until my assesment.

Balletdude

As the title says, my assessment is in just over 2 weeks, Im panicking, I feel sick with anxiety (my stimming toys have not been used so much ever ha ha)
Just really worried what they will say. I was offered either a video call or a face to face, I can't do the video call, as my internet is very poor, and the quality of calls over it are terrible. same with face time on my phone. Just checked where it is and is a 15 minute taxi from the train station 

Is it right to be anxious?
I don't know what Id think if they say I don't have autism, though my GP seemed to thing it definitely was (thats from the letter he sent them)
By that I mean I'll be back to square one, but without an explanation. Am I typing gibberish now and not making sense?



sorry to be a pain



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  • I had a lot of anxiety in the run up to my assessment, although I did mine remotely. One thing to bear in mind is that if you don't get the result you expect (I believe) you are able to seek a second assessment.

    Obviously I don't know you, but I think if you feel that you are autistic, and your GP does too, you will probably end up with a diagnosis.

    Hopefully this will help: up until my assessment, I always assumed that I was fairly "normal" and that I could hold my own in social situations. When we started the assessment however, I'd never felt less normal in my entire life. I could see what they were looking for from an NT person, but it just felt incredibly awkward when I did those things. Don't get me wrong though, they were lovely people and incredibly supportive, and that feeling of not being normal just cemented in my mind that I am indeed autistic, even though I sometimes feel like I'm not "autistic enough" to actually be autistic.

    I was only diagnosed a few months ago, so I'm still getting used to it, but I've had a series of support sessions following my diagnosis and that has helped me to see things in that light, and it's helped boost my confidence in the diagnosis. (And I've overused the word "diagnosis" now)

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    this_is_phil said:
    even though I sometimes feel like I'm not "autistic enough" to actually be autistic.

    This is very much where I am at the moment, just over a month post-diagnosis.

    Running up to the assessment I had convinced myself I was just wasting their time, and the assessment would end in one of two ways: either they would say “No, you’re not autistic”; or go away and think about it before coming back and saying “No, you’re not autistic.” So I nearly fell off my chair when the psychiatrist said at the end of the session that I met the criteria for a diagnosis of Level 1 ASD. 

    The assessment itself (mine was virtual) was a little uncomfortable as you’re being asked about various aspects of your life, but I was told beforehand that I didn’t have to answer anything I wasn’t comfortable with. For the record, nothing they asked even came close to that point. 

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  • in reply to this_is_phil
    this_is_phil said:
    even though I sometimes feel like I'm not "autistic enough" to actually be autistic.

    This is very much where I am at the moment, just over a month post-diagnosis.

    Running up to the assessment I had convinced myself I was just wasting their time, and the assessment would end in one of two ways: either they would say “No, you’re not autistic”; or go away and think about it before coming back and saying “No, you’re not autistic.” So I nearly fell off my chair when the psychiatrist said at the end of the session that I met the criteria for a diagnosis of Level 1 ASD. 

    The assessment itself (mine was virtual) was a little uncomfortable as you’re being asked about various aspects of your life, but I was told beforehand that I didn’t have to answer anything I wasn’t comfortable with. For the record, nothing they asked even came close to that point. 

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