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Assessment 'suggests': is that a formal diagnosis?

Stu

Hi

Have recently been assessed by an NHS autsim diagnostic centre, and received a diagnosis with this statement: 'Overall, the assessment suggests that [I] do fulfill the diagnostic criteria for Asperger's syndrome'.

I'm about to pass the assessment docs over to my HR dept and managers, but am a little concerned with the use of the word 'suggests'. Is it usual for a diagnosis to not be 100% certain in this way? I'm in my 40s, if relevent.

Thanks, Stu

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  • It's an inexact science (which is odd given they try to research it by exact science). They have evaluated your responses to various questions, with some school and parental information to corroborate (not always available to older people being diagnosed, so shortfall in that can also affect certainty).

    Be careful how you explain the diagnosis to HR. At the risk of repeating a story I've told many times before on here.... I showed my diagnosis to HR and they made a copy. They asked me if I wanted my managers to know my diagnosis. I said yes (I wanted them to know I was having difficulties, regularly picked up in annual reviews that were due to aspergers).

    HR scanned my full diagnosis document electronically and circulated it to managers and senior colleagues as an email attachment.

    Obviously, the nature of this document gave rise to a lot of confusion, such that I'd self diagnosed, or was getting on the bandwaggon of academics claiming to have aspergers as a kind of badge of intellect (which was a poopular theory at the time).

    I'm afraid you always have to treat HR like small children, and explain everything in detail, preferably written down in short sentences, otherwise they wont be able to get their heads round it.

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  • It's an inexact science (which is odd given they try to research it by exact science). They have evaluated your responses to various questions, with some school and parental information to corroborate (not always available to older people being diagnosed, so shortfall in that can also affect certainty).

    Be careful how you explain the diagnosis to HR. At the risk of repeating a story I've told many times before on here.... I showed my diagnosis to HR and they made a copy. They asked me if I wanted my managers to know my diagnosis. I said yes (I wanted them to know I was having difficulties, regularly picked up in annual reviews that were due to aspergers).

    HR scanned my full diagnosis document electronically and circulated it to managers and senior colleagues as an email attachment.

    Obviously, the nature of this document gave rise to a lot of confusion, such that I'd self diagnosed, or was getting on the bandwaggon of academics claiming to have aspergers as a kind of badge of intellect (which was a poopular theory at the time).

    I'm afraid you always have to treat HR like small children, and explain everything in detail, preferably written down in short sentences, otherwise they wont be able to get their heads round it.

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