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Getting a Official Adult Aspergers diagnosis (help on information please)

xrobertxdavisx

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*sigh* So when im next at the doctor for something else , im going to talk to my mum about asking about if she can help me ask the doctor about seeing if i have any kind of autism. I have tried many times to ask my mum to help me with this but always get too scared to mention it and im scared incase she says ur being stupid even though she thinks i do have slight autistic traits.

I just want to know whats it like when you get diagnosed? What do they do to tell ? ask you questions or what?
Do they try to push you into therapy or can you just continue with your life if you choose to?

Does it take 1 session or do they take like a few months to get back to you or something?

Im just really scared. Any information about the process will be help. Thanks.
 
i was diagnosed a while ago and i have had no therapy, no medication or anything, not pushed into doing anything

with mine it was 2 or 3 sessions with the psychologist then i think then it was a couple of weeks later with an official diagnoses

when i got it i didn't really understand what it was, i just knew it made me different, then i saw the ways i was different, and tried my best to fit in but failed, sorry started going off on a depressed tangent there

you should try and ask if you can see a specialist through your gp, thats all i can say, hope it helps a little, good luck
 
I was hoping the doctor would manage to do it :(

Im just getting ok with my doctor now to talk to and stuff. Im now scared about the phycolagist thing :(.


Whats im most scared of is they tell me im stupid and nothings wrong with me cause if nothings wrong with me then it turns out im just a stupid no friend weirdo who has no reasoning for being how i am.

Im just i dunno it hard cause i find it hard talking to family about this but I could never go alone. I struggle too much.

I just got this feeling that makes me scared incase i have been wrong and that im neurotypical. I know id love to be that but if i am just means i dont have an answer to why my lifes like this and why im like this.

I need this sorted just it hard and when my mum got to phone doctors is end of may for a june apointment so im hoping the day we head up to the doctors in like start of june i will say to her to help me ask the doctor about looking into it and getting tests. I just need all this time to get the courage to tell my mum that i want the diagnosis.
 
I don't think a regular doctor or GP can give a diagnoses for Asperger Syndrome. You would really need to see a specialist doctor like a psychologist. Don't be put off by that, they aren't bad people - just doctors who specialise in mental health. It might even be better to see a psychologist on your own if you are going to be talking about personal problems (obviously at the start your mum would be present). I found it easier to open up and talk if my mum waited outside the room. Although, you could have your mum with you all of the time if you wanted.


Anyway, it's not scary or anything. If you see a psychologist, he should be able to understand you better than a regular doctor because he will know what you are going through and how difficult it is for you.  If you feel you have it and want it confirmed then go for it. Otherwise, you will never really know for sure. Remember, there's no harm in asking. 
 
I don't think a regular doctor or GP can give a diagnoses for Asperger Syndrome. You would really need to see a specialist doctor like a psychologist. Don't be put off by that, they aren't bad people - just doctors who specialise in mental health. It might even be better to see a psychologist on your own if you are going to be talking about personal problems (obviously at the start your mum would be present). I found it easier to open up and talk if my mum waited outside the room. Although, you could have your mum with you all of the time if you wanted.


Anyway, it's not scary or anything. If you see a psychologist, he should be able to understand you better than a regular doctor because he will know what you are going through and how difficult it is for you.  If you feel you have it and want it confirmed then go for it. Otherwise, you will never really know for sure. Remember, there's no harm in asking. 


Yeh I thought abotu goign alone but i cant. Id get my mum to come with me and go outside when i need to talk about personal stuff and if i get scared or need help i can get my mum in. but at least she wud have to be waiting outside and taking me to them. just i dunno its scary thinking of going to someone ive never met ever before to talk about personal stuff. will be hard and i scared what they will ask. just i dont want any of my family to hate me or slag me or anything for going to a therapist. Im just scared of doing this. ive wanted to for a while and always said il do it before im 25 but i guess sooner the better.
 
i were diagnosed with autism age 14, they did they did information questions asking mum if they fit me this were done by the child paeditrician of LD team
 
Hi xROBERTx,
I fully identify with a negative Mum. I'd asked at around age 5 or 6 what was wrong with me and was told not to be "stupid", etc. Even more recently, I found a picture and article in a psychology text depicting a child in an empty room and immediately made some connections with the info printed. Don't be stupid she said. I put it aside and took her word for it - again. Mum isn't perfect, she lies, and thinks things, making assumptions, etc, judges based on these assumptions and can be entirely negative and closed off from anything different.
Just last month (now several years from finding the article in the psychology text) I finally took another look into ASD and read the symptoms. It at once broke me up inside and relieved me, I've been very content since then as I understand at least what's gone 'awry' so often, to see my blind spots illustrated there at least lets me identify them all neatly - even though i can't necessarily understand them, or how they work - but to recognise at last...
I've enjoyed not voicing what I'm doing with psychologists now. I tell her **** because I know how much suffering her ignorance and/or lack of honesty/integrity has given me in my constant needing to know what's going on.
So this is sort of how things have gone so far:
1. I seen a counsellor and made mention that I have suspected I might have autism or at least traits in the past but (as outlined) ignored myself; he told me to see my GP and ask for a referal to see a psychologist.
2. I went to see my GP and simply said I want to see a psychologist - he prodded with amusement for details, prick, then I got a referal letter with the phone number of the psychologist.
3. I'd booked into see the psychologist, he wasn't able to diagnose autism what-so-ever - what's worse he was a time waster and continued to try stringing me along for a 3rd appointment to listen to his dumb story about how a car is like a person in a sort of ... to be continued waste of my time/ funding. (be wary of this in case you meet one).
4. After the 2nd appointment with this waste of space for a psychologist I had to locate the local autism centres by phone call which I'd obtained via online - on my own, no help from "psychologist/self help guru".
5. the information from the local autism place was extreemely helpful. giving me several contacts that specialise in autism and additional info such as letting me know that autism is usually carried out by a multidisiplinary team of psychologists - some of which are specialised in autism.
6. I left a message on the machine of the nearest contact and am expecting the return call soon to confirm or deny whereby I'll call the next nearest and so on until I obtain one.

I hear the process can take a fair number of sessions but it's worth it, I know in myself that I have a form of autism, I'm entirely sure which but I think I probably have AS. I wouldn't accept being told otherwise because my reaction to discovering it was anything but what I would usually experience, probably just me specifically since the discovery is built up from early childhood to now (I'm 26). A lot of frustration so far but if anything a huge relief - well worth it if you need concrete and unshakable closure to your matter.
I would say not to stress too much about getting a negative result or misdiagnosis as you have a good enough understanding of how you experience the world, and the degree and extent varies between every sufferer (apparently). I'm new here, you're welcome to keep in touch - anyone really, keep in touch and talk about whatever.
Hope this helps xROBERTx, best of luck mate!!
 
This was my route to diagnosis...
first a visit to GP to get a referrel to psychiatrist/psychologist,
second a visit to a psychiatrist whom after a 3 hour ordeal of answering questions gave me a 'working diagnosis' of ASD, he then ordered a sequence of tests with a clinical psychologist,
third a series of cognitive, personality and iq tests with clinical psychologist and a referrel to adult ASD/ADHD specialist,
forth a visit to the adult ASD/ADHD specialist whom diagnosis me with 'asperger syndrome' and 'ADD',
then finally I receive a copy of the psychologist's test and a summary confirming the diagnosis.
Also I continue to see the adult ASD specialist on a regular basis.
 

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