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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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  • Thanks for the "autism work barrier" link, IntenseWorld. This independent site seems to be doing a good job, and the page highlighted by IntenseWorld makes concerning reading.

    Apparently there is hardly any research on autism and homelessness. NAS has done something in Wales, and that seems to be it.

    The link page concentrates on a study by Pritchard at Bournemouth University on "entrenched rough sleepers" (people who rely on sleeping in doorways and underpasses etc  the cardboard box existence).  Pritchard looked only at Devon and found that 9 out of 14 rough sleepers had autistic traits. That's 65% or nearly 2 out of 3!

    He also found that most of these potentially autistic rough sleepers were not there by choice (as is the case with some rough sleepers) but because they had been let down by Social Services, and simply had no alternatives.

    That is SHOCKING. Maybe we have become desentistised, but I challenge anyone, even someone in the Department of Work and Pensions, not to be shocked by the numbers of autistic people living on the streets.

    And the incresing numbers of people facing this dilemma because of the heartless and inhumane handling of the benefits reforms by DWP staff. Because I do think the reforms raise important issues, but I think apart from poor government the DWP has used it as some kind of backlash arising from their own twisted minds.

    Just have a thought, as we enter 2014, just how many people with autism are sleeping rough because this country doesn't care!

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  • Thanks for the "autism work barrier" link, IntenseWorld. This independent site seems to be doing a good job, and the page highlighted by IntenseWorld makes concerning reading.

    Apparently there is hardly any research on autism and homelessness. NAS has done something in Wales, and that seems to be it.

    The link page concentrates on a study by Pritchard at Bournemouth University on "entrenched rough sleepers" (people who rely on sleeping in doorways and underpasses etc  the cardboard box existence).  Pritchard looked only at Devon and found that 9 out of 14 rough sleepers had autistic traits. That's 65% or nearly 2 out of 3!

    He also found that most of these potentially autistic rough sleepers were not there by choice (as is the case with some rough sleepers) but because they had been let down by Social Services, and simply had no alternatives.

    That is SHOCKING. Maybe we have become desentistised, but I challenge anyone, even someone in the Department of Work and Pensions, not to be shocked by the numbers of autistic people living on the streets.

    And the incresing numbers of people facing this dilemma because of the heartless and inhumane handling of the benefits reforms by DWP staff. Because I do think the reforms raise important issues, but I think apart from poor government the DWP has used it as some kind of backlash arising from their own twisted minds.

    Just have a thought, as we enter 2014, just how many people with autism are sleeping rough because this country doesn't care!

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