Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi everyone.
I'm almost 27 and I have had the first part of my assessment for a diagnosis, just waiting on the second part.
I don't really know if I do have autism. I think I do and so do my family but its something we have only started recognising over the past few years. I'm really struggling to cope with a lot of things, especially as things are at the moment. I'm particularly struggling with work because I don't know if I can or should talk to them about how I am. I feel silly doing it when I don't have a diagnosis. It's just really hard being me at the moment I guess.
I had my first assessment at the start of July. I was told I should get a diagnosis within 3 months but I haven't heard anything from them since. Does anyone know anything I can do or anywhere I can turn? I don't have any autistic friends to help me or guide me either.
Thanks everyone. Take care
Hi, I have recently been diagnosed too. My work were aware of it for 2 years prior to me getting a diagnosis. I was struggling a lot with certain things and needed that extra support so I mentioned it. It isn’t silly at all to say something, the fact that you are going through an assessment currently means a lot so it shows your difficulties. My work turned around and said to me that even without the piece of paper saying I had a diagnosis, that it didn’t matter. Entirely up to you but hope this gives you something to think about :)
What sort of thing did you say to them? I dont know how sort of.. detailed I'm expected to be as such. If that makes sense. And like I said to the comment above, I'm so scared I will tell them how I am (which is a major task for me, trying to explain how I feel. My anxiety doesnt cope well at all. Not sure if it's the same for you guys) and then I wont get a diagnosis in the end.
I've never been so lost and so confused in my life
Thank you