Published on 12, July, 2020
I have my ASD assessment booked. The NHS waiting list in my area is years and as I am now 36 and struggling with depression and anxiety I think may be related to masking I just don’t feel I can wait that long.
I am incredibly fortunate that through my husband’s job we have private healthcare which will cover a private assessment.
Unfortunately I’ve had a few people tell me that ‘you get what you pay for’ and that private assessors will pretty much diagnose anyone. This is making me really worried and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this?
This is not the case. Even with NHS assessments someone gets money for that so they could easily just diagnose everyone also. It doesn’t make any logical sense. Even if the private assessor where to diagnose you as not autistic they still get your money for it so there is no reason why they would be pressured to give false diagnoses.
Thank you, that makes sense