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Revisiting diagnosis

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I’m hoping to get some advice I think after speaking to someone recently. I’m struggling and reached out to someone professional and after hearing her reaction it’s made me want to re visit my diagnosis. 

I started diagnosis just before lock down and my assessment was via zoom call. To cut a long story short the doctor told me he doesn’t think I have autism because when I worked in an office I would join some friends if going for a coffee on lunch break. I’m powerless to question his decision but after hearing how shocked the psychologist was who I was speaking to this week it’s made me want to go back. 

Has anyone done this and been reassessed and diagnosed? Anyone else had a zoom assessment? 

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  • I’ve had a zoom assessment towards the end of Covid and I’ve flagged this up with my social worker here in the U.K. for a second face-to-face opinion assessment, having been pushed by family in Ireland into getting a diagnosis in 2019 after 30 years in supermarket retailing (20 years living in the U.K.) and after my redundancy after 17 years at age 52 - even though I was 3 years unemployed during Covid, people in my new hotel job “twigged” that I’d had the condition before I’d mentioned it to anyone, but I’d also wondered about the true motivations of those family members in Ireland who were pushing me towards getting a diagnosis, even allowing for the fact that as a child with parents who had thier own issues, I’d been sent to a residential centre for 9 months before I left primary school (held back a year in Primary school) because I could not take being bullied in school and to punish me for being bullied in school in the Catholic Ireland of the time - I’d also been living in Dublin for 3 years after I thought (wrongly) that I might be gay, then returned home to Rural Ireland for a year before moving to the U.K. in 2002 and ending up homeless for 6 months - given that most autism support is geared towards children and not adults, I’m beginning to wonder if there is any real value in adult diagnosis - because what has carried me through is my Catholic faith in which I was raised, I’m reaching out to Catholic groups for sources of support, in accordance with Catholic Social Teaching and in an Irish Catholic cultural and social context here in the U.K. 

  • in reply to IrishInManchesterUK

    Wow that’s hard to understand what you’ve been through. I hope things are easier for you now. 

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