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Late middle age insight

Gaz Hunter

Hi.

I'm Gaz, and I'm 53, and I recently made the interesting discovery, by accident, that I fitted the profile of Asperger's syndrome. Which was a shock, but also explained a lot about the last 53 years...

I took the AQ test and scored 42. Now, I'm uncertain of the relevance of this but one of my friends took it as well, and scored 17.

So, armed with this, a week's worth of research and reading these community notes I made an appointment to see my local doctor.

Who told me *You've got a job. You can't have Asperger's. That's Autism. So you don't have it*, gave me 5 printed A4 sheets of information on Asperger's in infants and sent me home.

I'm feeling somewhat agrieved, and in no small measure let down.

Where do I go from here?

GAZ 

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  • 15% of people on the spectrum are in employment, on the milder of autism (aka aspergers), high cognitive ability low emotional coping, in lieu of low cognitive abiltiy and low emotional coping.(best way I can describe the spectrum, but it is all relative to the person).

    Anyway, Aspergers people, enjoy clear functional roles so employment is an attractive option, so that 15% may be mostly aspergers people.

    So what your GP say was ********, I held down many jobs, high order positions for over 20 years before the world swamped me and I got diagnosed with Aspergers. So the background of being employment or not is a stupid conclusion.

    Easy answer.,  speak to another GP ask for an initial enquiry via the NHS.

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  • 15% of people on the spectrum are in employment, on the milder of autism (aka aspergers), high cognitive ability low emotional coping, in lieu of low cognitive abiltiy and low emotional coping.(best way I can describe the spectrum, but it is all relative to the person).

    Anyway, Aspergers people, enjoy clear functional roles so employment is an attractive option, so that 15% may be mostly aspergers people.

    So what your GP say was ********, I held down many jobs, high order positions for over 20 years before the world swamped me and I got diagnosed with Aspergers. So the background of being employment or not is a stupid conclusion.

    Easy answer.,  speak to another GP ask for an initial enquiry via the NHS.

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