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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,

     

    My eldest sister has just been diagnosed at the age of 40 .. but ONLY because we (as her family network) pushed the Drs to pursue this. It came to a head recently where she'd been having some work issues and now finally she's been seen by a clinical psychologist, who was marvellous!

    Is there anyone else you can take along with you, as a) some support and b) to speak back to the GP if you become flummoxed or pushed away by the GP. ?

     

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  • Hi Gaz,

     

    My eldest sister has just been diagnosed at the age of 40 .. but ONLY because we (as her family network) pushed the Drs to pursue this. It came to a head recently where she'd been having some work issues and now finally she's been seen by a clinical psychologist, who was marvellous!

    Is there anyone else you can take along with you, as a) some support and b) to speak back to the GP if you become flummoxed or pushed away by the GP. ?

     

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