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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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  • longman said:
     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.

       

    Your comment about GPs is soo true.

    By the way, longman, (this might be stating the obvious) but what did you mean by the family break-ups etc and them getting round to taking it seriously. I've heard of cases of people recieving the wrong diagnoses and the NHS et al getting it TOTALLY wrong for them. But I might be a bit naive but do things really get to that stage for people without diagnosis. I know they may get emotional and mental health difficulties, either as co-morbodities or ortherwise, but state lets it get that worse.

     

    Thanks anyway,

    urspecial

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  • longman said:
     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.

       

    Your comment about GPs is soo true.

    By the way, longman, (this might be stating the obvious) but what did you mean by the family break-ups etc and them getting round to taking it seriously. I've heard of cases of people recieving the wrong diagnoses and the NHS et al getting it TOTALLY wrong for them. But I might be a bit naive but do things really get to that stage for people without diagnosis. I know they may get emotional and mental health difficulties, either as co-morbodities or ortherwise, but state lets it get that worse.

     

    Thanks anyway,

    urspecial

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