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GP refused to refer me

Lou13

Struggling to navigate on how to get referred for an assesment on the NHS.. I have explained all my struggles to my GP which aren't new struggles these have been from a young child and I'm now 30! Things are becoming increasingly difficult. The GP got me to do a questionnaire and apparently I didn't score quite enough. This has baffled me how they can do one peice of paper and determine I shouldn't be referred. I struggled to answer alot of them and some questions didn't seem quite relevant to me for example one said have I got an intense interest? Which i don't have a particular intense interest although I seem to intensely obsess over many different things that end up consuming me but I don't have a particular interest as such as I obviously answered that one as a no. Is there anywhere to go from here? If the GP isn't wanting to refer me what can I do?

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  • Hi and welcome to the community.

    It sounds like your GP might have asked you to complete the AQ-10 form, which is one of the screening tools that can be used in support of a referral for an autism assessment.

    You might find it helpful to complete the other form that can also be used for this purpose, the AQ-50. RAADS-R might also be considered helpful by your GP (although some recent research has thrown doubt on its clinical validity as a screening tool).

    You could use the website below for this. It includes some very useful commentary for each questionnaire (which might help with understanding them better), and enables them to be completed online, with scores calculated for you, before being saved as PDFs. If the results support your suspicions and you decide to ask your GP to reconsider, you can then also print them off to take with you.

    Embrace Autism - screening tests

    If you haven't yet done so, I'd also suggest reading through the resources in the NAS's diagnosis hub. They cover all stages of the process, with each section containing several articles relating to that stage:

    • Before diagnosis
    • Assessment and diagnosis 
    • After diagnosis 

    For example, they include:

    NAS - Signs that a child or adult may be autistic

    NAS - How to request an autism assessment

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  • Hi and welcome to the community.

    It sounds like your GP might have asked you to complete the AQ-10 form, which is one of the screening tools that can be used in support of a referral for an autism assessment.

    You might find it helpful to complete the other form that can also be used for this purpose, the AQ-50. RAADS-R might also be considered helpful by your GP (although some recent research has thrown doubt on its clinical validity as a screening tool).

    You could use the website below for this. It includes some very useful commentary for each questionnaire (which might help with understanding them better), and enables them to be completed online, with scores calculated for you, before being saved as PDFs. If the results support your suspicions and you decide to ask your GP to reconsider, you can then also print them off to take with you.

    Embrace Autism - screening tests

    If you haven't yet done so, I'd also suggest reading through the resources in the NAS's diagnosis hub. They cover all stages of the process, with each section containing several articles relating to that stage:

    • Before diagnosis
    • Assessment and diagnosis 
    • After diagnosis 

    For example, they include:

    NAS - Signs that a child or adult may be autistic

    NAS - How to request an autism assessment

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