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psychologists & psychiatrists hard to understand, communicate with

ALADDIN

I find that psychistrists are either hard to communicate with or do not understand everything.

There is no real support especially in the N.H.S, it is not possible to get a diagnosis of dyspraxia on the N.H.S.

I have an ASD. The psychiatrist said "aspergers traits not a problem" which I know means borderline asperger syndrome. The letter from my GP says ASD. The diagnosis was difficult to understand, I had a 10 minute non-standard diagnosis. A person inexperienced would not understand the meaning of aspergers traits, especially without support.

Some people within the N.A.S, think people either have full traits of asperger syndrome or do not have asperger syndrome. I feel people treat me like experimental data.

My mother has not noticed any problems, except for dyspraxia which has caused me a history of problems. It is of little practical benefit.

Now, I have a complete understanding of dyspraxia, I had to go privately. It could be diagnosed by a clicical psychologist, educational psychologist, occupational psychologist.

I had a cheap deal but there were three faults, the fact I had got a Postgrad qualification without any support, the person I have worked in  a call centre as a market research interviewer and as a telemarketer, the other fault was an undertanding of the Autistic Spectrum.

Under the new diagnostic criteria for ASD, I would not get a diagnosis.

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  • The reason a lot of people with asperger syndrome might get tired working in a call centre all day is that they experience sensory overload. It is also hard work trying to compensate for communication shortfalls.

    Trouble is sensory overload isn't covered by the triad of impairments.

    What I said above about things the Triad doesn't cover wasn't meant to infer that you were aperger rather than dyspraxic.

    But I suspect the Triad of Impairments isn't as effective as a diagnostic tool when distinguishing asperger and dyspraxia because they are closely similar, and one of the key distinctions MEMORY isn't adequately covered in the Triad.

    My understanding is that people with aspergers seem to have good memory capacity and people with dyspraxia have poor memory function. But you could find you have good memory - does that really mean anything? I suspect the truth is the experts don't really understand either condition properly.

    The triad of Impairments is a diagnostic tool to distinguish autism from other mental health conditions. But dyspraxia possibly wasn't one of the conditions the triad was set up to distinguish.

    The tragedy however is that the diagnostic tool is being used to encapsulate what being on the spectrum involves in terms of day to day living.  But it clearly fails to cover a lot of day to day issues which the professionals (despite knowing the Triad is specifically diagnostic), aren't addressing.

    Its like saying the triad is a diagnostic tool but at the same time we cannot be bothered supporting any other aspects of being autistic - tough.

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  • The reason a lot of people with asperger syndrome might get tired working in a call centre all day is that they experience sensory overload. It is also hard work trying to compensate for communication shortfalls.

    Trouble is sensory overload isn't covered by the triad of impairments.

    What I said above about things the Triad doesn't cover wasn't meant to infer that you were aperger rather than dyspraxic.

    But I suspect the Triad of Impairments isn't as effective as a diagnostic tool when distinguishing asperger and dyspraxia because they are closely similar, and one of the key distinctions MEMORY isn't adequately covered in the Triad.

    My understanding is that people with aspergers seem to have good memory capacity and people with dyspraxia have poor memory function. But you could find you have good memory - does that really mean anything? I suspect the truth is the experts don't really understand either condition properly.

    The triad of Impairments is a diagnostic tool to distinguish autism from other mental health conditions. But dyspraxia possibly wasn't one of the conditions the triad was set up to distinguish.

    The tragedy however is that the diagnostic tool is being used to encapsulate what being on the spectrum involves in terms of day to day living.  But it clearly fails to cover a lot of day to day issues which the professionals (despite knowing the Triad is specifically diagnostic), aren't addressing.

    Its like saying the triad is a diagnostic tool but at the same time we cannot be bothered supporting any other aspects of being autistic - tough.

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