Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey all,
Firstly, thanks for this forum and your participation, its brought me much comfort over the past few weeks. I’ve been on a journey for a couple of years, reading and exploring if I might be Autistic, and because of this forum and the positive examples many of you set, I felt confident to go ahead with an assessment. Thank you.
Secondly, I wanted to share my experience with Psychiatry UK for an ASC diagnosis. Timeline as follows:
8 Nov 2023 - Created an account and paid for a private ASC assessment
9 Nov 2023 - Received Self and Informant questionnaires and AQ-50 to complete.
15 Nov 2023 - Returned completed questionnaires and AQ-50
24 Nov 2023 - Assessment completed and diagnosed as Autistic.
Other than a couple of false starts on scheduling appointments between the 15th and 24th Nov and consultants not being available, the process was smooth and the team at Psychiatry UK were kind and caring throughout.
TheCyberMan - I am delighted to hear that things went so quickly and smoothly for you. I hope you feel better/different now that you have finally got your diagnosis - for me it opened up a lot of questions but also answered a few too.
Thank you Autumn_Trees (And what a beautiful name that brings such vivid imagery with it).
I’m certainly feeling a little more free already, I’ve found myself not masking in certain circumstances (and noting I’m not), I’ve looked back on memories and realised I was fine then, and I’m fine now, and that the ‘standard’ I was holding myself to, really wasn’t right, which has given me some peace on long standing memories.