Published on 12, July, 2020
I will keep this brief but I was diagnosed as not autistic. Here’s why....
good eye contact despite struggling (can only keep eye contact in one eye)
good childhood apparently, loved school....had friends. perfectly normal apparently according to my mum (I wasn’t)
I don’t flap my hands or dance in circles. I do other stuff
i didn’t notice pictures that were not straight in room
didnt talk excessively about special interests (I don’t want to bore people)
can communicate well, when people are asking my questions
I had friends but can’t maintain them now don’t want any.
can play football
despite struggling with a raft of problems since I can remember. I was just told......your not autistic. Goodbye
i very well may not be autistic but......I feel they were looking for an extreme case. I hide my stuff well and had to too survive.
I just feel like I’ve been given no help and just basically told, yeah....you’re just not very good at stuff and maybe it’s trauma? I felt different since a kid and this was brushed off. Rant over.
anyone else had something similar?
Autism isn't merely about not being able to do things. It is mostly to do with having to pay an unreasonable price in exhaustion, anxiety and poor mental health in order to do them, and keep doing them.
Absolutely
I’m just abit sensitive and traumatised, apparently this can be misconstrued and picked up as autism. Absolutely useless the nhs
i got put forward because mh detected it during a breakdown of my routine. I didn’t even think autism was anything like what I now know.
they really need to look into things as people having already been missed are then let down again. It’s negligent if this is happening to people. Life’s could be lost through people not having up to date knowledge