Paying Privately for Adult Aspergers Assessment?

Thanks Hope, but I'm still puzzled.

You say: "those people with AS who do not require any support are very much in the minority".

It is my perception (and I may be wrong), that there are a lot of adults who have been diagnosed later in life who do not get any support. Do you have evidence that people with AS who do not need support are a minority?

Are there people getting a diagnosis simply to understand themselves, and for no other reason?

The diagnosis for me did greatly help in understanding myself, both as closure for what happened to me in the past and to help me improve my coping strategies. But I did need the coping strategies, and before the diagnosis I suffered greatly from low self esteem and low self confidence, as well as spiralling anxiety which I strived hard to keep in check.

Part of what we have been discussing is whether people with aspergers can succeed in life, and we seemed to be moving to the view that people like me were borderline because we found a way to get by.

However a lot of people have no real choice but to strive to get by. Is surviving proof of being borderline?

Thanks Hope, but I'm still puzzled.

You say: "those people with AS who do not require any support are very much in the minority".

It is my perception (and I may be wrong), that there are a lot of adults who have been diagnosed later in life who do not get any support. Do you have evidence that people with AS who do not need support are a minority?

Are there people getting a diagnosis simply to understand themselves, and for no other reason?

The diagnosis for me did greatly help in understanding myself, both as closure for what happened to me in the past and to help me improve my coping strategies. But I did need the coping strategies, and before the diagnosis I suffered greatly from low self esteem and low self confidence, as well as spiralling anxiety which I strived hard to keep in check.

Part of what we have been discussing is whether people with aspergers can succeed in life, and we seemed to be moving to the view that people like me were borderline because we found a way to get by.

However a lot of people have no real choice but to strive to get by. Is surviving proof of being borderline?