An autism diagnosis describes a person at one point in time, autism profiles can change over a lifetime.
You might have been diagnosed at school where peer pressure is at its greatest and spectrum difficulties often become more obvious. You might then, as an adult, become much better at coping and compensating so it is no longer obvious.
What puzzles me about the diagnosis is the efforts parents go to to 'cure' their child's autism, in the hope of a better adult life when in fact all the attempts to correct behaviour and deprogramme and so on probably do more harm than good. It isn't a deviant behaviour that can be corrected, it is a disability based on cognitive and communicative skills. It can change but the cure is a myth.
I think the key thing you have to think about is what is the stigma, the diagnosis or the behaviours. You may not fully appreciate the impact of the behaviours. A diagnosis helps you understand the condition and develop skills to compensate, and it gives you access to support and services. If you don't feel you need the interventions any more and can manage fine, then you could well ask for a re-assessment.
But as stateofindependence says you might be better just not mentioning it, and carrying on without presenting the diagnosis.
Also I think more questions might be asked if you got the diagnosis reversed, people might suppose you were wrongly diagnosed or faked it before.
An issue that concerns me is that in later life I'm managing. That wasn't always the case, and my teens particularly, and through my twenties I was in a bad way. There does seem to be this notion that if you are managing you haven't really got aspergers or autism. So what was wrong with me in my teens? Was I just making a fuss about nothing?
An autism diagnosis describes a person at one point in time, autism profiles can change over a lifetime.
You might have been diagnosed at school where peer pressure is at its greatest and spectrum difficulties often become more obvious. You might then, as an adult, become much better at coping and compensating so it is no longer obvious.
What puzzles me about the diagnosis is the efforts parents go to to 'cure' their child's autism, in the hope of a better adult life when in fact all the attempts to correct behaviour and deprogramme and so on probably do more harm than good. It isn't a deviant behaviour that can be corrected, it is a disability based on cognitive and communicative skills. It can change but the cure is a myth.
I think the key thing you have to think about is what is the stigma, the diagnosis or the behaviours. You may not fully appreciate the impact of the behaviours. A diagnosis helps you understand the condition and develop skills to compensate, and it gives you access to support and services. If you don't feel you need the interventions any more and can manage fine, then you could well ask for a re-assessment.
But as stateofindependence says you might be better just not mentioning it, and carrying on without presenting the diagnosis.
Also I think more questions might be asked if you got the diagnosis reversed, people might suppose you were wrongly diagnosed or faked it before.
An issue that concerns me is that in later life I'm managing. That wasn't always the case, and my teens particularly, and through my twenties I was in a bad way. There does seem to be this notion that if you are managing you haven't really got aspergers or autism. So what was wrong with me in my teens? Was I just making a fuss about nothing?
