Hopeless_Aspie_Guy
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So yer basically I had a long 5 hour session today at the mental health unit in my local hospital (an appointment 3 years in the making since my initial referral from the councillor at my request) accompanied by my mum.
The lady we saw was very nice and it was basically a series of questions and discussions based around the qualifying criteria to establish if I had autism spectrum disorder (aspergers is no longer being used as a diagnosis) from which she was taking notes. After just half of the session was over she was satisfied that I could be diagnosed as having ASD (which was a relief to my unshakable belief that I did) but the questions and discussions continued after the lunch break to help build up a portfolio for my personal condition.
The kind of questions I was asked was largely based around my life from birth to present day. In the UK you're requested to bring a close family member with you whose known you since birth (so I brought my mum along) to make answering some of the questions about your young childhood easier. An example of some of the questions varies from things like my understanding of fascial expressions, to scenario based questions to questions about me as a baby and infant. I was also allowed to add additional info to help.
For the end of the session I had my mum wait outside and out of earshot so that I could also reveal to the lady my other problem (namely this hypersexual parasite ruining me). I had to be very careful that 'it' did not get to speak through me and say anything inappropriate (which it didn't, even though I had to revel some very personal sexual things to help get my point across) and she was satisfied that though worse than anything she's ever heard from someone before (aspergers or otherwise) that she felt it had enough of a relation to aspegers. She's going to speak with her colleagues on this matter in the hope that I can speak to a psychiatrist regarding this (possibly to be prescribed medication, otherwise just to chat) but also to address my ongoing depression and anxiety of which has been going on for about 5 years. I even mannaged to briefly get upset at the start of the session (grr that's getting repetitive and annoying now).
So yer that's basically my story, I'm hoping it can serve as an example for those yet to be diagnosed to perhaps follow (especially those here in the UK, as I am more familiar with the processes involved). Basically (though there may be other ways I'm not aware of) just get yourself a councillor to make the referral (you may require a GP initially to see the councillor) and then you'll get a questionairre to initially help filter out anyone who doesn't qualify. After this the wait can be very long (nearly 3 years in my case) depending on how many specialists they have local to you and how often he/she/they see people during each week.
To those who have been diagnosed already, what did you do with the knowledge and were you given extra help in any way shape or form?
The lady we saw was very nice and it was basically a series of questions and discussions based around the qualifying criteria to establish if I had autism spectrum disorder (aspergers is no longer being used as a diagnosis) from which she was taking notes. After just half of the session was over she was satisfied that I could be diagnosed as having ASD (which was a relief to my unshakable belief that I did) but the questions and discussions continued after the lunch break to help build up a portfolio for my personal condition.
The kind of questions I was asked was largely based around my life from birth to present day. In the UK you're requested to bring a close family member with you whose known you since birth (so I brought my mum along) to make answering some of the questions about your young childhood easier. An example of some of the questions varies from things like my understanding of fascial expressions, to scenario based questions to questions about me as a baby and infant. I was also allowed to add additional info to help.
For the end of the session I had my mum wait outside and out of earshot so that I could also reveal to the lady my other problem (namely this hypersexual parasite ruining me). I had to be very careful that 'it' did not get to speak through me and say anything inappropriate (which it didn't, even though I had to revel some very personal sexual things to help get my point across) and she was satisfied that though worse than anything she's ever heard from someone before (aspergers or otherwise) that she felt it had enough of a relation to aspegers. She's going to speak with her colleagues on this matter in the hope that I can speak to a psychiatrist regarding this (possibly to be prescribed medication, otherwise just to chat) but also to address my ongoing depression and anxiety of which has been going on for about 5 years. I even mannaged to briefly get upset at the start of the session (grr that's getting repetitive and annoying now).
So yer that's basically my story, I'm hoping it can serve as an example for those yet to be diagnosed to perhaps follow (especially those here in the UK, as I am more familiar with the processes involved). Basically (though there may be other ways I'm not aware of) just get yourself a councillor to make the referral (you may require a GP initially to see the councillor) and then you'll get a questionairre to initially help filter out anyone who doesn't qualify. After this the wait can be very long (nearly 3 years in my case) depending on how many specialists they have local to you and how often he/she/they see people during each week.
To those who have been diagnosed already, what did you do with the knowledge and were you given extra help in any way shape or form?
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I am also in the process. I was dxed in 2010 but it was one of those one hour things, and I just thought no way. I was passing so awesomely that i even had myself fooled and I was not trying to fool anyone, least of all me!
