Paying Privately for Adult Aspergers Assessment?

There is no harm self-diagnosing if you will not require personal assistance from social services. As already stated, I am rather against private medicine, but if an individual wants to go down this route then that is okay, too, but I cannot help being sceptical.

The NHS should assess those adults who are struggling, perhaps through mental health problems, chronic stress, bullying  or employment difficulties in order to provide them with the support they require. The vast majority of adults with AS do struggle one way or the other and this is a statistical fact. It is almost an inevitability that some problems, requiring support, will arise due to the condition. Those people with AS who do not require any support are very much in the minority, and yet this minority appears inflated because individuals who do not struggle at all get a diagnosis just in order to understand themselves. But in this situation self-diagnosis could be just as effective.

There is no harm self-diagnosing if you will not require personal assistance from social services. As already stated, I am rather against private medicine, but if an individual wants to go down this route then that is okay, too, but I cannot help being sceptical.

The NHS should assess those adults who are struggling, perhaps through mental health problems, chronic stress, bullying  or employment difficulties in order to provide them with the support they require. The vast majority of adults with AS do struggle one way or the other and this is a statistical fact. It is almost an inevitability that some problems, requiring support, will arise due to the condition. Those people with AS who do not require any support are very much in the minority, and yet this minority appears inflated because individuals who do not struggle at all get a diagnosis just in order to understand themselves. But in this situation self-diagnosis could be just as effective.