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Please help me! Make female assessments safer!

Gentle

Here’s a link to my traumatic experience of Psicon’s unprofessional boundaries and clinical unsuitability when assessing me for autism.  Notice Psicon don’t deny any of it—that speaks volumes.  They’ve just relied on the complaints process being complete, but notice they don’t deny any of the specific failings I raised about that very process, so what does that tell you?  Then they claim their current service isn’t reflected in my review, but I’ll leave you to judge if their current reply is at all open or caring.   I believe it’s vital the public – especially females - sees this, as it’s not just my wellbeing I’m concerned for. I’ve taken this as far as I can manage, so if you share my continuing concerns, please post this wherever you can.   

https://uk.trustpilot.com/reviews/688926c54357a1727f03dc71

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  • I'm so sorry you had such an awful experience.  There needs to be much better understanding of autism, and updated training rolled out nationally, which is informed by autistic people and our lived experience.  Training led or co-led by autsitc people which includes a wide range of experiences, including those of late-identified or late-diagnosed women is vital.  

  • in reply to skyglimmers

    Thank you.  Absolutely!  You'd think given there have been prime-time BBC documentaries about it, professionals in teh field would know about masking. So it was shocking that this happened in an autism assessment service that claimed to be experts in female autism.  I certainly didn't feel listened to during the assessment and especially not during the complaints process. I've since discovered that even the various Ombudsman's seem clueless about the Equality Act so their services simply don't cater to autistic people in my experience - and so the services they regulate aren't likely to get better either.  It's very sad and frustrating.    

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  • in reply to skyglimmers

    Thank you.  Absolutely!  You'd think given there have been prime-time BBC documentaries about it, professionals in teh field would know about masking. So it was shocking that this happened in an autism assessment service that claimed to be experts in female autism.  I certainly didn't feel listened to during the assessment and especially not during the complaints process. I've since discovered that even the various Ombudsman's seem clueless about the Equality Act so their services simply don't cater to autistic people in my experience - and so the services they regulate aren't likely to get better either.  It's very sad and frustrating.    

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