Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello, all
So, as you may or may not have seen from previous posts made by me, I’m currently on the waiting list for ASD assessment, following a good 3 years of trying to determine if I actually am autistic, and so far, 1.5 years on the waiting list, with a projected 1.5 years minimum left to go until someone actually assesses me.
Life has started to move on pretty quickly for me; I’ve just gotten a part-time job, and I’ll be moving to university in the near future too, and while some people and services are accommodating of the fact that I am not diagnosed yet, it’s becoming a severe roadblock. Reasonable adjustments, Disabled Students Allowance, being allowed to bring my car to university so I can go home if I need to so I can keep familiar surroundings, routines and people around me, I can access none of that without a diagnosis. And, quite frankly, my lack of diagnosis simply isn’t enough; me saying that ‘I’m on the waiting list’ just isn’t enough anymore.
There’s the private diagnosis route, but there isn’t the money for that. There’s numbers we can ring to say ‘this is situation is getting worse’ to the local authority service that I’m currently with, but I’m currently being transitioned from child to adult services, and thus don’t have a contact point. Which leads me to Psychiatry U.K (which would also require an additional step of getting a GP to also see that I have ASD, as we went the self-referral route)
To those who have used Psychiatry UK, what was it like? How does it work, is it mainly online based or is it in person? How long was the wait, do you regret using them or would happily exalt their praises?
I’m willing to try almost anything at this rate
read your diagnoses, and I notice three things: 1) The UK system works better than ours 2) Diagnoses are fast, for us it's science fiction if you're an adult 3) A state is civil and valid if it really gives many opportunities to its citizens. Yours is better. In many things the Italian State has beautiful laws. In others we are not protected at all. I struggled for a very long time to get a diagnosis and mine was so obvious. Basic ordinary medical preparation is lacking. While on the scientific research side we are among the first in the world. These two things are really discordant with each other. It means that something doesn't work as well as it could. Be careful because many diagnoses are wrong and some have other orientations. It means that there are other syndromes but in the diagnosis only one converges, I am writing this to you because there are so many syndromes and it is not likely that they have the same component. * Some are not easy to resolve at all and are very similar to each other. Always pay attention to the diagnosis, as in any diagnosis you can make an error of evaluation. The speech is very complex.