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need some help??

davek75

hello all,

im david age 38, im currently experiencing some troubled times...

i was diagnosed as a child with aspergers... i now want a fresh diagnosis to enable me to get more help as an adult on the spectrum...

how do i go about this??

would a fresh diagnosis help me to learn how to cope with my disability??

how do i learn more about myself??

as a child it was all abit beyond me to be honest, my parents were fairly secretive with me as i was adopted and they always used that as a "problem area"...

i have always been a "loner".. not being able to understand why i needed friends or people to talk too, over the years i saw quite a few "specialists" and was often misunderstood by them.

i was diagnosed as a young teen but they noticed i had problems when it came to taking my 11+ test in junior school....

im trying to explain the situation to the best of my ability, im now 38 my diagnosis will be 24 years old... how do i go about getting a fresh assessement?? does anyone know how i can get one on the NHS as i cant afford a private one??

any help would be greatly appreciated??

thanks you for reading...

david :)

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  • Davek, if before entering the discussion forum next time, stop first at the Community page, bottom right hand corner is a little red map of Britain headed "Find Local Services".

    Sadly this facility is not as good as it ought to be. If you put in some search term like "diagnosis" or "adult services" and a place it will still give you every other place first.

    But with a bit of patience you will find what services are near you that you could approach.

    Hopefully NAS will eventually wake up and give you some proper help - maybe their Director could make himself useful.

    I assume GP access is not as simple as IntenseWorld describes it - but some GP centres exist in some towns that will help, just other towns don't seem to have anything comparable.

    I'm not party political, I'll go along with any Government, but this Coalition Government has broken all records for heartless insensitive obsession with their own ideological machinations and have done harm to just about everybody. Sadly I don't think any of them have such a thing as a conscience or any notion of shame, and while I understand the PM had a disabled child, it doesn't seem to have opened his eyes much.

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  • Davek, if before entering the discussion forum next time, stop first at the Community page, bottom right hand corner is a little red map of Britain headed "Find Local Services".

    Sadly this facility is not as good as it ought to be. If you put in some search term like "diagnosis" or "adult services" and a place it will still give you every other place first.

    But with a bit of patience you will find what services are near you that you could approach.

    Hopefully NAS will eventually wake up and give you some proper help - maybe their Director could make himself useful.

    I assume GP access is not as simple as IntenseWorld describes it - but some GP centres exist in some towns that will help, just other towns don't seem to have anything comparable.

    I'm not party political, I'll go along with any Government, but this Coalition Government has broken all records for heartless insensitive obsession with their own ideological machinations and have done harm to just about everybody. Sadly I don't think any of them have such a thing as a conscience or any notion of shame, and while I understand the PM had a disabled child, it doesn't seem to have opened his eyes much.

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