Putting a name: pda autism

There are lots of stories here in the forum of people being mis diagnosed and re-diagnosed with different problems. It seems that mental health, in general, is much less certain and precise than the physical side of medicine. I went to a talk from a local mental health charity and the lady spoke about people being diagnosed with different problems depending on which doctor had seen the patient. People with undiagnosed ASD often develop other mental health problems and is just hard to unravel the different problems that someone has.

There's not much to be gained by being angry about it. I read some anger management books before I worked out I had ASD and they advised that anger only hurts the angry person. Try to look forwards, not backwards :-)

Thanx atypical

i feel a little less enraged. And i live in France this explains it too

i understand now why diagnosis changed several Times.

yet it Would hâve been so bloody less of a struggle if

i had been diagnosed before. It really spoiled 12 years of m'y life

with heavy médication, despair, and Such a slow positive evolution...

i just took an appoitement With a psychilogist who can make a diagnosis 

about it.... 

Hi, it may be partly an age thing.  I'm guessing you are older as you have been 'through the system' a few times. When I was a kid only the more obvious forms of autism were known about. I think Aspergers only became known about and diagnosed 20-30 years ago. I don't know when, but I think PDA is only quite recently recognised. Plus many autistic girls develop better coping strategies than boys, and so are harder to diagnose. Our symptoms aren't so obvious.

So it might be that if you were growing up now, you'd get diagnosed.  But when we were kids we were just seen as a 'bit strange' or 'excentric'. And maybe we were diagnosed for other problems we had, as a result of being undiagnosed autistic, such as depression.

Can someone tell me How it was never spotted in france where i live

i am fluent in english