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Adult referral

RidleyRumpus

Hi,

I had not considered myself to be on the spectrum but comments from my ex wife and several colleagues in the teaching profession that they thought I maybe got me thinking.

I have many of the same characteristics of those on the spectrum and when I have taken the online tests as honestly as possible the indication is always that I am on the spectrum.

The problem is that I think AS may account for why I seem to have so many interpersonal problems at work, I am a physics teacher). I am often accused of being rude when I just cannot see it, I really do not want to be.

This is made worse that I have great deal of difficulty with names and faces, it took me four years to be able to differentiate all the colleagues in my department and there are only ten. With pupils it is plain embarrassing to be talking to a pupil in the corridor not know their name and be told I have taught them for X years...

As a consequence it is not surprising to me that I have more than my fair share of complaints from students and parents. Unfortunately due to at least partle due to these problems my school is now moving to have me sacked.

So today I went to my GP and asked to be referred for a test only to be told that this PCG does not fund/provide referrals for adults. I have checked for a private referral and this would cost me £1000 which I just do not have.

I presume that they are not allowed to do this?

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  • I have recent experience of these CCG cutbacks, though not directly due to my autism.  I was refused funding for earwax microsuction treatment which I'd always received before on the NHS.  Instead, I was offered only old-fashioned syringing, which is both potentially dangerous and painful/unpleasant for me.  I appealed against their decision, citing among other factors my autism (sensory overload from syringing) but my appeal was rejected.

    The administrators spent months "looking into my case," as they put it.  Why, I said, can't someone spend five minutes looking into my ears!  In the end, only letters from my tinnitus therapist and ENT consultant convinced the CCG panel to overturn their own decision.  It had to be shown that I was "different to the general population" in relation to my need for treatment.  But autism was not the deciding factor; it was my very narrow ear canals (which make syringing painful and ineffective). 

    I suspect that such documentation from medical experts is what's needed in most cases of CCG funding refusals.  I don't know who'd be appropriate to convince them about the need for autism assessment - maybe someone who works in mental health (even if the autism isn't itself a mental health problem).

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  • I have recent experience of these CCG cutbacks, though not directly due to my autism.  I was refused funding for earwax microsuction treatment which I'd always received before on the NHS.  Instead, I was offered only old-fashioned syringing, which is both potentially dangerous and painful/unpleasant for me.  I appealed against their decision, citing among other factors my autism (sensory overload from syringing) but my appeal was rejected.

    The administrators spent months "looking into my case," as they put it.  Why, I said, can't someone spend five minutes looking into my ears!  In the end, only letters from my tinnitus therapist and ENT consultant convinced the CCG panel to overturn their own decision.  It had to be shown that I was "different to the general population" in relation to my need for treatment.  But autism was not the deciding factor; it was my very narrow ear canals (which make syringing painful and ineffective). 

    I suspect that such documentation from medical experts is what's needed in most cases of CCG funding refusals.  I don't know who'd be appropriate to convince them about the need for autism assessment - maybe someone who works in mental health (even if the autism isn't itself a mental health problem).

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