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had assesment - still not right

Jon

Hello.

I had an assement for Aspergers in Sheffiedl last year. The doctor concluded that I did not have 'features suggestive of Aspergers Syndrome'. The doctor must be right and I am having CBT to try and sort myself out. I get depressed, frustrated, anxious and struggle with social interaction. I have low confidence. I thought that a diagnosis Aspergers made alot of sense regarding how I am. Reading about Aspergers did help me understand myself. I am really trying with the CBT but it is hard and I still have the same problems.

I just wondered if there were anybody else who have had assesments and got the same result as me? and how are they?

JonUndecided

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    I wonder whether assessment of adults takes into account that if they have reached, say, their 40s, they will have had to have made adjustments to fit into the NT world, but these adjustments don't necessarily make life easy and can cause an enormous amount of stress in the individual.  Stripping off the veneer of neotypical behavour can be difficult, especially if you are understandably tense about the whole interview.

    When it comes to parental input it doesn't surprise me if oddites in their childrens' behaviour are played down, or denied, bearing in mind that the parents of adults seeking diagnosis grew up in a period when mental illness was feared and seldom acknowledged.  In Jon's case, when speaking to the psychiatrist, his mother was not only apparently in denial of his difficulties when growing up but contradicted what she had told him about family health problems.

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    I wonder whether assessment of adults takes into account that if they have reached, say, their 40s, they will have had to have made adjustments to fit into the NT world, but these adjustments don't necessarily make life easy and can cause an enormous amount of stress in the individual.  Stripping off the veneer of neotypical behavour can be difficult, especially if you are understandably tense about the whole interview.

    When it comes to parental input it doesn't surprise me if oddites in their childrens' behaviour are played down, or denied, bearing in mind that the parents of adults seeking diagnosis grew up in a period when mental illness was feared and seldom acknowledged.  In Jon's case, when speaking to the psychiatrist, his mother was not only apparently in denial of his difficulties when growing up but contradicted what she had told him about family health problems.

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