Published on 12, July, 2020
I am an adult. I was always unusually shy, withdrawn, anxious, obsessive. A long term friend who is a therapist told me I have Asperger's Syndrome. My GP will not refer me for diagnosis. I believe my therapist friend. Do I actually need the documentated diagnpsis a Autism specialist would give me? Is it enough to say a private therapist diagnlsed me?
Hi Jamie4,
Whether you need an official diagnosis or not rather depends on what you want to do with it I think.
If it was just for personal / self knowledge then I guess you'd be happy with your Therapist friend's assesment. So can I assume there is some other purpose you want the diagnosis for?
I pursued diagnosis as an adult after many years of being reasonably sure I was Aspergers. I was having many problems (physical/mental health) and got to a point where I needed to know for sure if Aspergers was a correct diagnosis in the hope that it would help me understand my self and get the right kind of help to cope with my problems. I recieved the diagnosis earlier this year but got side tracked pretending to be normal again and didn't do anything useful with it! (BTW - pretending to be normal hasn' t worked out so well - again!)
Kind regards,
soldersplash