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Revisiting diagnosis

NAS72187

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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  • Hello NAS72187.

    So clearly, the doctor with whom you had your initial assessment was neither an elbow nor an *** specialist !

    If you are talking to a psychologist at the moment, I would carry on talking to them for a while if you can.  It might be that you now simply need to exorcise that awfully inept initial assessment from your mind - I'm sure that EVERYBODY here can attest to that.  When that is done to your satisfaction, you might find that you are then simply content to self-identify.

    If you are an adult, there are very few external or 3rd party "benefits" to receiving a diagnosis (but do check out the plethora of threads that address that matter in very considerable detail.)

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  • Hello NAS72187.

    So clearly, the doctor with whom you had your initial assessment was neither an elbow nor an *** specialist !

    If you are talking to a psychologist at the moment, I would carry on talking to them for a while if you can.  It might be that you now simply need to exorcise that awfully inept initial assessment from your mind - I'm sure that EVERYBODY here can attest to that.  When that is done to your satisfaction, you might find that you are then simply content to self-identify.

    If you are an adult, there are very few external or 3rd party "benefits" to receiving a diagnosis (but do check out the plethora of threads that address that matter in very considerable detail.)

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    I see what you mean. I’ve tried every day for over 2 years to forget about it but I can’t. There are very few benefits to adult diagnosis but for me the one big one is telling others. A lot of people don’t accept or even laugh at self diagnosis. Another is medication. It’s for those 2 reasons I’m pursuing this. I’ll see what my psychologist says and take it from there. It’s always slow though. 9 days until I speak to her again and I am not a patient person! Laughing