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Going to the doctor

Kate Kestrel

Advice needed please. 
If you have a young autistic adult that you are supporting, and they have a symptom that any (in fact every) doctor would say: ‘get that looked at/checked out by a GP to make sure it’s nothing serious’ but the young adult does not want to go to the doctor, what is the best way to approach helping them with that? When they are totally emphatic that they don’t want to go and see the doctor, but the symptom is one that there is a TINY TINY risk it could be something like cancer? What do you do? 
It’s most likely (by far) that it’s nothing serious but there is a TINY chance that it could be? And the young person hates to be put under pressure of any kind (and I don’t think pressure would help but only stress them out hugely). What do you do in this scenario? 

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  • Hi I’m going through this our daughter who is 15 has extreme anxiety about going to hospital and dentist so has refused point blank for years now! She currently has severe tooth pain so we’re having to deal with this ourselves with paracetamol and nurofen it’s so worrying and also to see her rolling around in pain, because she’s high functioning autistic social stories and stuff like that don’t help..last year we had to call an ambulance she ended up hitting the ambulance driver!  She did apologise after but refused to go to hospital I really don’t know what will happen to her…

  • in reply to NAS88014

    Hi - I’m so sorry to hear that your daughter struggles with this so much too - that must be so hard for her and for you and the whole family. I can understand it - I get incredibly anxious about these things too. And like you I worry about how my son will deal with this sort of thing in the future. He hates cleaning his teeth and hates the dentist - and these things are not compatible! I’m sending you and your daughter all best wishes and solidarity - you are both not on you’re own in struggling in this way x 

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  • in reply to NAS88014

    Hi - I’m so sorry to hear that your daughter struggles with this so much too - that must be so hard for her and for you and the whole family. I can understand it - I get incredibly anxious about these things too. And like you I worry about how my son will deal with this sort of thing in the future. He hates cleaning his teeth and hates the dentist - and these things are not compatible! I’m sending you and your daughter all best wishes and solidarity - you are both not on you’re own in struggling in this way x 

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