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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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  • Interesting.  According to my diagnostician, who used virtually the exact same terminology:

    "...which is a term psychologists often use; as research, interview, or test findings suggest, etc. Some do not always understand this scientific use."

    It did cause me troubles with my (ex) GP who was one of the ones who didn't understand it (although weirdly, when I (eventually) got a copy of my medical records he had recorded my diagnosis, I think he was pretending to me that he didn't believe it was a diagnosis to get out of providing me reasonable adjustments.  Even weirder because the practice manager had phoned me and told me they had received the report and put the diagnosis on my health records.

    Your age has nothing to do with it, it does mean it is a diagnosis, but as I found it caused problems because it doesn't spell it out in such concrete terms that no-one can question it.  I wanted mine to say "has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome" but these clinicians use silly wording sometimes.  It should be like a court of law, without loopholes and without any way to be queried.  But I guess that is the nature of a neurological difference, it is always up for challenge until such time as a medical test such as a brain scan can prove it.

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  • Interesting.  According to my diagnostician, who used virtually the exact same terminology:

    "...which is a term psychologists often use; as research, interview, or test findings suggest, etc. Some do not always understand this scientific use."

    It did cause me troubles with my (ex) GP who was one of the ones who didn't understand it (although weirdly, when I (eventually) got a copy of my medical records he had recorded my diagnosis, I think he was pretending to me that he didn't believe it was a diagnosis to get out of providing me reasonable adjustments.  Even weirder because the practice manager had phoned me and told me they had received the report and put the diagnosis on my health records.

    Your age has nothing to do with it, it does mean it is a diagnosis, but as I found it caused problems because it doesn't spell it out in such concrete terms that no-one can question it.  I wanted mine to say "has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome" but these clinicians use silly wording sometimes.  It should be like a court of law, without loopholes and without any way to be queried.  But I guess that is the nature of a neurological difference, it is always up for challenge until such time as a medical test such as a brain scan can prove it.

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