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Paying Privately for Adult Aspergers Assessment?

ice lolly

Hello all,

I am thinking of paying privately for an adult Aspergers assessment (for myself) so that I don't have to wait for my GP to refer me, and was wondering if anyone had any experience of doing this ...

Thanks!

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  • The way the world goes round, to use a metaphor, it is quite likely such things do occur. There are safeguards but yes, I can quite well believe it.

    I'm still nowhere nearer getting to grips with alleged over- diagnosis and quackery.

    If people are going to pay for private diagnoses, and with the difficulties getting NHS diagnoses in some parts of the country, people like the author of this thread Yvanna, need to have confidence that the diagnosis they pay a lot for is reliable.

    JDW and Kanga have both said that the NHS doesn't accept private diagnosis. It seems to have happened to Kanga. This would be a serious issue that perhaps NAS should address on the website (maybe already does - I haven't checked).

    However that's a long way from the assertion of significant misdiagnosis taking place.

    You are raising "evidence" which if legally contestable, could bring this forum into ill repute.

    Please reconsider this one. It is important, I expect, to a lot of people visiting this discussion group.

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  • The way the world goes round, to use a metaphor, it is quite likely such things do occur. There are safeguards but yes, I can quite well believe it.

    I'm still nowhere nearer getting to grips with alleged over- diagnosis and quackery.

    If people are going to pay for private diagnoses, and with the difficulties getting NHS diagnoses in some parts of the country, people like the author of this thread Yvanna, need to have confidence that the diagnosis they pay a lot for is reliable.

    JDW and Kanga have both said that the NHS doesn't accept private diagnosis. It seems to have happened to Kanga. This would be a serious issue that perhaps NAS should address on the website (maybe already does - I haven't checked).

    However that's a long way from the assertion of significant misdiagnosis taking place.

    You are raising "evidence" which if legally contestable, could bring this forum into ill repute.

    Please reconsider this one. It is important, I expect, to a lot of people visiting this discussion group.

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