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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

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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.

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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.

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