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GP's not helping with diagnosis - advice please

Kirst7

Hi,

This is regarding my niece who is 5 years old (will be 6 in August). She has not formally been diagnosed with Aspergers condition as the Doctors will not accept her behaviour.

She is not like a normal 5 year old, she is well behaved/quiet/happy to play on her own.

When my sister went to the doctors about her behaviour they put it down to parenting. Having researched into it, aspergers fits her behaviour perfectly.

She is the perfect little girl, so bright for her age. But she just doesn't seem like a happy 5 year old.

Please can someone advise me on how I can get a referral to speak to someone to help diagnose her when the NHS won't help??

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    If the child is behaving unusually but does not have behavioural issues that require treatment then the doctor may advise that the parents should focus on parenting skills. There are lots of people that are unusual but they do not require treatment by doctors. Many of these odd people would get a diagnosis if they wanted but they may survive well enough without.

    The child may well be on the spectrum but not severely affected enough for it to be causing a significant enough problem to warrant investigation and treatment. I would have fallen into this category as a child and managed 56 years of slightly unusual living before I needed a diagnosis.

    If the doctor has suggested parenting skills are an issue then it may be worth considering the possibility that one of the parents is also on the spectrum. The doctor may have picked up slightly odd behaviour in the adults but has not put two and two together to arrive at a suspicion of anything worth treating. Aspergers is frequently an inherited condition and it is fairly common for the child to be diagnosed or suspected and then for a parent to be found to be somewhere on the spectrum.

    There is a free online test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that the parents could take.

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    If the child is behaving unusually but does not have behavioural issues that require treatment then the doctor may advise that the parents should focus on parenting skills. There are lots of people that are unusual but they do not require treatment by doctors. Many of these odd people would get a diagnosis if they wanted but they may survive well enough without.

    The child may well be on the spectrum but not severely affected enough for it to be causing a significant enough problem to warrant investigation and treatment. I would have fallen into this category as a child and managed 56 years of slightly unusual living before I needed a diagnosis.

    If the doctor has suggested parenting skills are an issue then it may be worth considering the possibility that one of the parents is also on the spectrum. The doctor may have picked up slightly odd behaviour in the adults but has not put two and two together to arrive at a suspicion of anything worth treating. Aspergers is frequently an inherited condition and it is fairly common for the child to be diagnosed or suspected and then for a parent to be found to be somewhere on the spectrum.

    There is a free online test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that the parents could take.

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