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hi i`m Becky  i`m 48  i`m self identifing as having autism and ADHD

i`m having trouble getting my doctors to believe  in having  either   have other women   had this problem  i`ve  tryed 5 driffent  doctors and getting   nowhere so i`ve given up at the moment 

so i`m starting to put my own routine in place and finding it is working for me  

i have know i`m been autistic all my life and my parents refused to do any thing   so it has made life really hard 

i`m  looking to make some new friends

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  • Hi Becky, That's rough. As I see it they don't have a choice. It's not up to them to believe it or not.

    Knowing how bad the GP surgeries can be my partner helped me pick from the Right to Choose options. We had had all the referral paper work printed out and went to the appointment handed everything over "I want to be referred here". All they had to do was sign the cover letter. The GP in question wanted to write their own cover letter, something that took the surgery as a whole just shy of two months. (Best we could piece together the letter was dictated that week and took 6/7 more weeks to type and send). 

    Perhaps scoping out your Right to Choose options and telling them the exact provider you want to be assessed by might help. 

    I'm 48 myself, Discovery of Neurodiversity 2 years ago. Assessed and medicated for ADHD for a little over a year and oh boy did my autism make itself known. I've been procrastinating on getting my autism assessment because of the initial problems with the GP and there was such a rigmarole over the shared care refusal phase, I just don't want to go near them. Every week I tell myself it's time to get it sorted, but for me any resistance is off putting.

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  • Hi Becky, That's rough. As I see it they don't have a choice. It's not up to them to believe it or not.

    Knowing how bad the GP surgeries can be my partner helped me pick from the Right to Choose options. We had had all the referral paper work printed out and went to the appointment handed everything over "I want to be referred here". All they had to do was sign the cover letter. The GP in question wanted to write their own cover letter, something that took the surgery as a whole just shy of two months. (Best we could piece together the letter was dictated that week and took 6/7 more weeks to type and send). 

    Perhaps scoping out your Right to Choose options and telling them the exact provider you want to be assessed by might help. 

    I'm 48 myself, Discovery of Neurodiversity 2 years ago. Assessed and medicated for ADHD for a little over a year and oh boy did my autism make itself known. I've been procrastinating on getting my autism assessment because of the initial problems with the GP and there was such a rigmarole over the shared care refusal phase, I just don't want to go near them. Every week I tell myself it's time to get it sorted, but for me any resistance is off putting.

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