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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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  • I was shown the referral letter from my doctor at the time of diagnosis. He said in his letter that I was probably delusional as autism only affects children.

    GPs are sadly blissfully ignorant about autism. Before I asked for a diagnosis, over the years I'd had numerous offers of relaxation tapes, parent-adult-child therapy, stress reduction. Anything I had was apparently explained by anxiety - yeah anxiety about fruitless attempts to find a genuine GP.

    When you consider it is a factor in alcoholism, drug abuse and family break-ups you would think they'd get round to taking it seriously rather than all this quackery. They waste resources giving people the wrong treatment.

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  • I was shown the referral letter from my doctor at the time of diagnosis. He said in his letter that I was probably delusional as autism only affects children.

    GPs are sadly blissfully ignorant about autism. Before I asked for a diagnosis, over the years I'd had numerous offers of relaxation tapes, parent-adult-child therapy, stress reduction. Anything I had was apparently explained by anxiety - yeah anxiety about fruitless attempts to find a genuine GP.

    When you consider it is a factor in alcoholism, drug abuse and family break-ups you would think they'd get round to taking it seriously rather than all this quackery. They waste resources giving people the wrong treatment.

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