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Can you just ask a specialist?

Elan

I have taken cognitive tests the results of which seem to suggest Aspergers. I've read how it presents in females and I strongly relate. But because of how I appear to the outer world my struggling is either dismissed or not believed. 

I'm in the middle of pursuing a diagnosis but the person who decides whether I get referred or not rejected the test results completely, but honestly they don't really know, I would really like to show the results to someone who does know ASD/is a specialist to ask whether it is really worth pursuing a diagnosis, but is there a way I can do that?

I was thinking of calling the NAS helpline, has anyone found it helpful? Many thanks. 

Parents

  • Amazing to hear other peoples persistance. How long roughly did you leave it before you chased it up? I was told I'd need another appointment.

    Overall the pyschiatrist wasn't bad, it was only that I could just see where they were leaning more towards mental health, which I believe to be the sympton but not the suspect in my case, and I really would've liked somone who knows to have been the one to decide that, I'm aware of the gulf between how I appear and what I actually expierenece (it's pretty big) and trying to bridge that in a communicable way while expierening an anxiety attack I don't even know I'm having is, ......like having to walk to the hospital with broken legs that need to be looked at XD

    I don't know, it just feels so obstructionalist

    Yes use the skills you don't have to prove you're missing the skills you don't have

    Saying that I actually can't seem to find a general overall cognitive profile for ASD, is there one?

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  • Amazing to hear other peoples persistance. How long roughly did you leave it before you chased it up? I was told I'd need another appointment.

    Overall the pyschiatrist wasn't bad, it was only that I could just see where they were leaning more towards mental health, which I believe to be the sympton but not the suspect in my case, and I really would've liked somone who knows to have been the one to decide that, I'm aware of the gulf between how I appear and what I actually expierenece (it's pretty big) and trying to bridge that in a communicable way while expierening an anxiety attack I don't even know I'm having is, ......like having to walk to the hospital with broken legs that need to be looked at XD

    I don't know, it just feels so obstructionalist

    Yes use the skills you don't have to prove you're missing the skills you don't have

    Saying that I actually can't seem to find a general overall cognitive profile for ASD, is there one?

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