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Can a Nurse provide a Autism Diagnosis? (Adult)

Goatworshiper

I've got a draft of a report and I'm sorting out mistakes (for which there is many). I'm just wondering if a Nurse can diagnose autism or not?

I've been assesed by a Specialist Registrar, Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2xCommunity Nurses and a Higher Assistant Psychologist. I've never seen the Consultant Psychiatrist.

The report is written by a community nurse. Is this normal?

Top and bottom of this is unless I get a developmental interview conducted by someone who knew me aged 4/5 they won't say either way. Despite me telling them I didn't want my parents involved at the start (and them telling me that was ok).

I was also promised a feedback session at the end of assesment period regardless of outcome. This now seems to be convieniently forgotten about now I have "difficult" questions. 

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  • I've just given this link on another thread, but will hopefully manage to get it in correctly: www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/.../survival.pdf  "Coping: a survival guide for people with aspergers syndrome" by Marc Segar 1997. The title will usually find it quickly.

    The reason I've offered this up is the way it is written, which might help Goatworshiper resolve the tricky issues of whether or not it really applies. Marc Segar's text, while 17 years old now, was written very much along the lines of day to day living.

    Most books labour the triad of impairments and talk about symptoms in a heavily evidential way, giving examples that are often extremes. For most people this is disquieting and often not directly familiar - yielding the reaction can't be me then, I haven't got it anything like that bad.

    Marc Segar just gets on with it and talks about day to day living issues.

    I consulted this early on after my diagnosis and found it helpful. But there wasn't much help around then. The number of books since, I've tended to forget it, but a number of people on the forum lately have been seeking basic reassurance and ideas about getting round everyday problems, and it struck me this might help.

    Like electra I too had the problem of both parents being deceased and had to rely on evidence of a sibling.

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  • I've just given this link on another thread, but will hopefully manage to get it in correctly: www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/.../survival.pdf  "Coping: a survival guide for people with aspergers syndrome" by Marc Segar 1997. The title will usually find it quickly.

    The reason I've offered this up is the way it is written, which might help Goatworshiper resolve the tricky issues of whether or not it really applies. Marc Segar's text, while 17 years old now, was written very much along the lines of day to day living.

    Most books labour the triad of impairments and talk about symptoms in a heavily evidential way, giving examples that are often extremes. For most people this is disquieting and often not directly familiar - yielding the reaction can't be me then, I haven't got it anything like that bad.

    Marc Segar just gets on with it and talks about day to day living issues.

    I consulted this early on after my diagnosis and found it helpful. But there wasn't much help around then. The number of books since, I've tended to forget it, but a number of people on the forum lately have been seeking basic reassurance and ideas about getting round everyday problems, and it struck me this might help.

    Like electra I too had the problem of both parents being deceased and had to rely on evidence of a sibling.

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