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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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  • So, I booked another appointment, with a different doctor, for next Tuesday. I'm not running away from this, I want a proper answer.
    I admit at 53 I'm a little nervous, but then I've had 53 years of having to work twice as hard to get where I am. Already, armed with what I have learned here, I've made work easier by the simple expedient of getting in the office an hour early before the noisy shouty lot get in. I can get more work done in a quiet hour than I can in three when the office is full...and now I can understand why

     

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  • So, I booked another appointment, with a different doctor, for next Tuesday. I'm not running away from this, I want a proper answer.
    I admit at 53 I'm a little nervous, but then I've had 53 years of having to work twice as hard to get where I am. Already, armed with what I have learned here, I've made work easier by the simple expedient of getting in the office an hour early before the noisy shouty lot get in. I can get more work done in a quiet hour than I can in three when the office is full...and now I can understand why

     

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