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I will be assesed for Aspergers/Asd and Personality Disorders

helhal24

Hi all I am new to this forum.

Had a meeting with the psycology doctor and my support worker within the mental health team today.  They are looking at getting a diagnosis.  I am 34 have 3 boys and was with ex partner 13 years.  Have always had social problems and anxiety.  They are saying because I had traumatic childhood they will be assesing me within mental health for personality disorders bought on by trauma...but I also think I fit many criteria for Aspergers. I did an online assesment just to gain an idea and i scored 36. borderline aspergers was within 26-32.  Anyway i took all this info with me and they are also referring me out to have an asd assesment as agree i do meet the criteria.  Both have rather long waiting lists.  I am worried they are only thinking of my traumatic childhood.  I think some of the things that happened to me were becasue i didnt know how ti respond socially...I also would like to know if it is worth thinking of a private assesment as i dont know if i can wait that long i just want to live.

Would like to talk to others who are in similar positions please or who can advise thanks very much x

Helen

  • Hi  helhal24

    I think i'm in a simillar position a similar position, after first seeing my GP and being refered to mental health, i don't feel mental.

    Alltough i had a social worker that said shes seen poeple with asd and i don't seem like that. Bearing in mind at the time i'd just come out of work, was extremly confuseded and couldn't explain how i felt.

    I'm being assesed by and occupational theripest and last time i seen her she said i deffinatly have strange views but she wasn't sure if this was due to asd or development of a trumatic child hood.

    I personally think its due to asd, they have to be thourough it just takes time i suppose, best of luck Steven..

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    electra said:

    Undiagnosed autistic people can also be good parents, providing an autistic child with a stable environment with few changes of routine. They can also provide an autistic child with an achievable role model.

    Very true. Autistic people can make good parents, bad parents or mediochre parents. I don't think I was particularly good and the kids ran me ragged when they were younger.

    The point I was making was that sometimes autistic parents can be hopeless and the kids end up with traumatic childhoods or even abused. An undiagnosed aspie parent trying to manage undiagnosed and hard to control aspie kids can be a very difficult situation in some cases. Other children of other autistic parents will have idyllic understanding parents. The OP's case suggested to me that the former situation may be part of their problem and that recognising the possibility of that could be useful. I think it is worth considering these possibilities when we know that autism is often inherited through our genes.

  • Undiagnosed autistic people can also be good parents, providing an autistic child with a stable environment with few changes of routine. They can also provide an autistic child with an achievable role model.

    As to whether you go private it depends what you hope to gain from the diagnosis. If you are seeking certainty and peace of mind then perhaps a faster route to diagnosis via a private provider might work. If you want help and support then the sad truth is that there is very little of that on offer for adult autistic people.

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    A traumatic childhood might be due to being brought up by undiagnosed autistic parents. Autism is frequently inherited. Undiagnosed autistic people can be very bad parents. Can you remember any incidents from childhood that might be explained by a parent (or both) being a sufferer of autism?

  • Hi, I can't exactly match your experience, but I can talk a bit about diagnosis of autism and personal history of having had personality disorder.  Do you know if the psychology doctor you saw thoght you may have personality disorder for any reason/s other than suspecting it because you've had a traumatic past?  I was retro diagnosed with having had personality disorder (which I'd subsequently self-cured through going through longterm counselling several times) by the psychiatrist who assessed me for autism 18 months ago (I was aged 45 by this point).  Have you come across Tony Attwood's theory that the stress of female pattern autism often leads to borderline personality disorder?  The theory rang very true for me, but you, of course, are unique and may not fit this pattern at all.