Anomnomnomaly BSC SSC on Nostr: 6yrs ago, I was given a 'test' by the mental health team at my local GP (I've moved ...
6yrs ago, I was given a 'test' by the mental health team at my local GP (I've moved twice since then) regarding my 'potential' autism.
I scored 9 out of 11... and they said they'd refer me.
They never bothered.
Then covid hit, I moved twice and here we are almost 6 full yrs later... still no closer to an actual answer.
So a few yrs ago, I decided that I was just going to accept I was because a psychiatrist I used to know, said I showed all the symptoms, as have other people on the spectrum.
Today I read this article, that says 90% of all people over 50... have never been diagnosed.
The NHS simply doesn't have the resources to deal with between 250-600 thousand cases... or as is more likely, just doesn't give a shit because we're old and serve no useful purpose to society any more.
So I thought, I'd take the Simon Baron-Cohen QA test too.
I scored 38 out of 50. Anything over 33 shows significant autistic traits.
If I can actually find the will to phone my doctors... I'll be mentioning this... along with their utter failure to do anything about it for 6 yrs.
But that's a very big... if. Especially when you have zero number of people in your life who care enough to even bother to try and understand what it means... and expect you to be 100% normal like them.
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#NHSFailures
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87542l14ro
I scored 9 out of 11... and they said they'd refer me.
They never bothered.
Then covid hit, I moved twice and here we are almost 6 full yrs later... still no closer to an actual answer.
So a few yrs ago, I decided that I was just going to accept I was because a psychiatrist I used to know, said I showed all the symptoms, as have other people on the spectrum.
Today I read this article, that says 90% of all people over 50... have never been diagnosed.
The NHS simply doesn't have the resources to deal with between 250-600 thousand cases... or as is more likely, just doesn't give a shit because we're old and serve no useful purpose to society any more.
So I thought, I'd take the Simon Baron-Cohen QA test too.
I scored 38 out of 50. Anything over 33 shows significant autistic traits.
If I can actually find the will to phone my doctors... I'll be mentioning this... along with their utter failure to do anything about it for 6 yrs.
But that's a very big... if. Especially when you have zero number of people in your life who care enough to even bother to try and understand what it means... and expect you to be 100% normal like them.
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#NHSFailures
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87542l14ro