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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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  • Unfortunately, some GPs have outdated ideas of what autism looks like, there are also differences between how males and females present and that isn't always considered. Of course, adults and children also present differently as adults have learnt to mask. I guess you have to consider that GPs have to know a small amount about everything and don't always specialise in the subject, however, if you can see another GP and get the referral, at least then you will be seeing specialists who know what they are looking for. The GP probably just looked at the numbers of the form rather than really read and discussed your answers.

    To use the special interest question as an example, if I had to answer quickly, I would probably say no, but if I look back on my life, I see I do have obsessions with finding out about things a lot more than some neurotypical people I know who take things at face value, so that could be a similar thing. The form is difficult, especially if you don't read between the lines on the questions, which is a autistic trait in itself.

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  • Unfortunately, some GPs have outdated ideas of what autism looks like, there are also differences between how males and females present and that isn't always considered. Of course, adults and children also present differently as adults have learnt to mask. I guess you have to consider that GPs have to know a small amount about everything and don't always specialise in the subject, however, if you can see another GP and get the referral, at least then you will be seeing specialists who know what they are looking for. The GP probably just looked at the numbers of the form rather than really read and discussed your answers.

    To use the special interest question as an example, if I had to answer quickly, I would probably say no, but if I look back on my life, I see I do have obsessions with finding out about things a lot more than some neurotypical people I know who take things at face value, so that could be a similar thing. The form is difficult, especially if you don't read between the lines on the questions, which is a autistic trait in itself.

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