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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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    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 

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    I totally understand why it had a massive impact on you.  I totally understand why you can't forget about it.  You have my unreserved sympathy on both counts.

    Please be assured that the following is not an attack or challenge on your current thinking, merely observation and opinion upon it.  I do hope you will be able to receive it in that spirit - I'm most certainly aiming for "helpful" not "elbow hole." !!

    I struggle to understand "medication" aspect?  I do not believe that there are any specific medications that would apply differently (for or to you) if you have a formal diagnosis for Autism.  There is no medication for Autism.

    I also worry for you slightly, if you are expecting people to react differently and/or more favourably towards you if you have received a formal diagnosis.  Moreover, I also worry for you slightly if you were not to receive the diagnosis that you obviously feel is - shall we say - highly likely.  I think people can be cruel and/or damaging unless you have some profound connection with yourself - whether diagnosed or undiagnosed.

    My commentary above is predicated and informed by extensive reading on this site and other places about these matters and I can wholeheartedly recommend that you do the same.  The archive here is very extensive with many, many diverse experiential opinions.  It is irritating to navigate though!  I have found it invaluable in helping me to come to terms with - things!

    I am most certainly not claiming to be an authority in any respect on any of these matters and wish you all the best in any and every event.

    Kind regards.

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  • in reply to NAS72187

    I totally understand why it had a massive impact on you.  I totally understand why you can't forget about it.  You have my unreserved sympathy on both counts.

    Please be assured that the following is not an attack or challenge on your current thinking, merely observation and opinion upon it.  I do hope you will be able to receive it in that spirit - I'm most certainly aiming for "helpful" not "elbow hole." !!

    I struggle to understand "medication" aspect?  I do not believe that there are any specific medications that would apply differently (for or to you) if you have a formal diagnosis for Autism.  There is no medication for Autism.

    I also worry for you slightly, if you are expecting people to react differently and/or more favourably towards you if you have received a formal diagnosis.  Moreover, I also worry for you slightly if you were not to receive the diagnosis that you obviously feel is - shall we say - highly likely.  I think people can be cruel and/or damaging unless you have some profound connection with yourself - whether diagnosed or undiagnosed.

    My commentary above is predicated and informed by extensive reading on this site and other places about these matters and I can wholeheartedly recommend that you do the same.  The archive here is very extensive with many, many diverse experiential opinions.  It is irritating to navigate though!  I have found it invaluable in helping me to come to terms with - things!

    I am most certainly not claiming to be an authority in any respect on any of these matters and wish you all the best in any and every event.

    Kind regards.

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