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Meerkatz

After months of researching and questioning myself I finally decided to phone and try to arrange a GP appointment to get an assessment for autism. I'm a 20 year old student in my final year at university. For around the past year I've been struggling with depression and I've had anxiety in some form for as long as I can remember. I was told that I couldn't be on the autistic spectrum because I'm at university and I wouldn't be where I was if I was autistic. I don't really understand this and it has made me feel even worse and even more confused. I've been seeing a counceller for my mental health problems and want to bring it up with him but I feel as though I would be wasting his time. I feel lost at the moment and it is seriously affecting my uni work and my relationships with family and friends, who are distancing themselves fro me when I try to talk about the traits of autism I experience. Any help in understanding and coping better would be really apprreciated. I haven't told anyone else I think I am autistic. Should I? Am I just making this up in my head? Do I keep trying to get a diagnosis?

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  • Hi Meerkatz,

    Well for me, telling people, it was a close family supported venture, most of my friends have also been diagnosed with all manner of Personality Disorders, including ASD, and it was more a case of finding out what was actually 'wrong' with me in sociological terms.

    The main problem was getting Doctors and Specialists to actually help me, so so many of them, but the therapeutic processes were largely incompatible. I mean the support was appreciated, but also exaspearting and demoralising, in that there was no actual improvement in the character of my condition. So as you are now doing - at a university level proficiency; I have been doing since primary school.

    So, we have addressed the: 'AQ Test', and ''The sensory world of autism' , we now move on to the next step:

    Autistic Spectrum Disorders

    An Aid to Diagnosis

    By Lorna Wing MD FRCPsych

    Then we can discuss perhaps what you think about it all, in a synoptic sense, and or then move on to the final prelimary stage.

    Sincerely Thus,

    D.

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  • Hi Meerkatz,

    Well for me, telling people, it was a close family supported venture, most of my friends have also been diagnosed with all manner of Personality Disorders, including ASD, and it was more a case of finding out what was actually 'wrong' with me in sociological terms.

    The main problem was getting Doctors and Specialists to actually help me, so so many of them, but the therapeutic processes were largely incompatible. I mean the support was appreciated, but also exaspearting and demoralising, in that there was no actual improvement in the character of my condition. So as you are now doing - at a university level proficiency; I have been doing since primary school.

    So, we have addressed the: 'AQ Test', and ''The sensory world of autism' , we now move on to the next step:

    Autistic Spectrum Disorders

    An Aid to Diagnosis

    By Lorna Wing MD FRCPsych

    Then we can discuss perhaps what you think about it all, in a synoptic sense, and or then move on to the final prelimary stage.

    Sincerely Thus,

    D.

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