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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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  • longman said:

    Agreed, it seems bizarre but you only get help, it seems, if you've got OCD or depression or some other secondary problem.

    I've only really managed to get what little help I have because my previous landlord, who has a mental health condition, started threatening to kill me - that got me straight on to the top of the council housing list, and a Housing Support Officer - who is brilliant, if a little limited in what she can do.

    Even having Crohn's and 'dystimia' (which is like 'depression lite'), as well as Asperger's, doesn't seem to warrant any extra support (even though if it wasn't for my mum taking me to hospital appointments, my Chrohn's would be significantly worse than it is now).

    And, I guess I too would probably be classed as a 'borderline' case - and is also probably why I wasn't diagnosed before a couple of years ago - on the surface I may seem to be mostly 'coping' and I don't cause 'society' much of a problem, on the whole, so I get ignored.

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  • longman said:

    Agreed, it seems bizarre but you only get help, it seems, if you've got OCD or depression or some other secondary problem.

    I've only really managed to get what little help I have because my previous landlord, who has a mental health condition, started threatening to kill me - that got me straight on to the top of the council housing list, and a Housing Support Officer - who is brilliant, if a little limited in what she can do.

    Even having Crohn's and 'dystimia' (which is like 'depression lite'), as well as Asperger's, doesn't seem to warrant any extra support (even though if it wasn't for my mum taking me to hospital appointments, my Chrohn's would be significantly worse than it is now).

    And, I guess I too would probably be classed as a 'borderline' case - and is also probably why I wasn't diagnosed before a couple of years ago - on the surface I may seem to be mostly 'coping' and I don't cause 'society' much of a problem, on the whole, so I get ignored.

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