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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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  • Hi Gaz,

    I know just how you feel! My GP was exactly the same.  I tried the process a couple of years back and although I did get a sort of intermediate referral, I was told that it was impossible to diagnose me due to my age (I'm now 63). 

    I strongly suspect that this brick wall we encounter is partly lack of NHS funding and partly ageism (they think we'll all be dead in a few years so it doesn't really matter.)

    The reason that I have joined this forum is in the hope to meet other people in my situation - so we can shout really loud until someone hears us.

    In the meantime I am going back to my GP to complain and ask again for referral. No doubt I'm lining myself up for another knockback.

    Emel

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  • Hi Gaz,

    I know just how you feel! My GP was exactly the same.  I tried the process a couple of years back and although I did get a sort of intermediate referral, I was told that it was impossible to diagnose me due to my age (I'm now 63). 

    I strongly suspect that this brick wall we encounter is partly lack of NHS funding and partly ageism (they think we'll all be dead in a few years so it doesn't really matter.)

    The reason that I have joined this forum is in the hope to meet other people in my situation - so we can shout really loud until someone hears us.

    In the meantime I am going back to my GP to complain and ask again for referral. No doubt I'm lining myself up for another knockback.

    Emel

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