Extra, extra! Greentea going for diagnosis! (of all people!)

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But do you trust a professional diagnosis more than you trust yours, acacia? Don't we here at WP know more, and actually teach them a thing or two about AS sometimes?

(btw, I'll be back in a couple hours with a detailed account on what went on!)

Best luck Greentea!

No. I've done the research. I don't see how I could NOT have Asperger's. However, it would be helpful to me (and to family members) to understand more of the science of what is going on. Any additional information that a doctor might be able to provide would be of value to me. The diagnosis itself is not the primary objective for me. It would really be to help others understand me.

I might be getting diagnosed soon as well, Greentea. I, too, fear that the specialist will tell me I don't have it.

Even though I see that there's almost no way I DON'T have AS, other people tend to trust so-called experts way too much, and if the specialist says I don't have it, I'll get the hypochondriac label.

Good luck, anyway.

Hi GreenTea, for some reason I have followed your threads lately and know what you have been through. Its a great step to get a formal diagnosis. I really hope that you will be met by serious and nice caring people who see your difficulties in the right way
Maybe you have to wait very very very long time to get it, my impression is that often you have to wait in a long queue before its your turn. I wish you great good luck and hope it will help you easier with work and financial issues!

Good luck Greentea!! I am nervous for you as well since I don't really trust those psychiatrist peoples. I think it is a good idea to write out everything about your syptoms and your childhood as others have suggested.

Other than that I am not sure what to say. Just be yourself I guess and try to find a doctor who is educated on autism/AS, especially adult autism/AS since they will have to see past the 'coping mechanisms' that you surely have in place to help you through.

I hope it turns out well for you!! !

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This is operating on the assumption that the Dr's are 'right' or know more than you/I/others, which may be a falacy. That's the problem I've always had with getting a diagnosis. I don't trust them to actually know what they're talking about. You might be able to get AS from one Dr and a 'you're just fine' from another and a god knows what from yet another. *Shrug* jmo..

I'd suggest bringing a shotgun.

You can trust the integrity of a "mental health professional" as long as you have a shotgun pointed at them.

Psychiatry is a stupid pseudo-scientific profession.

The shotgun's suggestion might be excellent in such matter , and no ...I am not saying that because I am Lebanese and you're from .....(checking behind, checking under table , checking proxy ip) *ehem* enemy grounds, but simply because psychiatrists deserve a shotgun in the a$$.

I'm not assuming that they have "all the answers", or are inherently "right", but I am open to the possibility that they may know something that I have overlooked, or be at least a little more on the cutting edge of autism research than I am.

I've been to psychiatrists before and they didn't say a thing about autism or asperger's.
I'd like to see if I can find someone who specializes in the autism spectrum, and have an informed discussion about what exactly is going on with me. This is presuming a lot, but I figure I'll go at it with an hopeful attitude. Every little bit of information, taken with plenty of grains of salt, will help.

Ok, I'm back.

Extra, extra! Greentea's a WP impostor! Greentea doesn't have any neurological condition, she just needs another 30 years of Psychotherapy on top of the 30 years of Psychotherapy she's already undergone.

Motor clumsiness = many people have minor motor clumsiness = not AS

Not understanding the non-verbal = too self-centered, not caring about relating to people and therefore choosing not to tune in to their needs = not AS

Special interests / obsessions = as long as they're productive, it's not AS

Total social reject = probably too angry from childhood abuse, chip on shoulder, fear of being ignored = being aggressive = need Psychotherapy = not AS

Father and grandmother autistic = no time to get into it = does not exist = not AS

Integration of all of the above together = no time to discuss it = cannot include in the data = not AS

Sounds bad. Couldn't have been a pleasant encounter.

Did you see someone who's experienced in ASDs and who doesn't claim this himself? (People claim all sorts of things untrue about themselves)

You saw this someone for the first time, did I get this right?

Then screw it, he or she's unprofessional.

Someone as old as you and clever as you can't be diagnosed in one session.

(Though I can understand that that would be ideal if you have to pay these appointments yourself.)

Even I who's supposedly a dead obvious case wasn't given any hint at whether I am or not after the first visit because my professional(s) thought that would be unprofessional and dangerous if the assumption was wrong.

(Just noticed your second post. Definitely screw that and forget about the un-professional!)

Ugh that sucks Greentea. It definately sounds like the Dr was not really listening to you but just making assumptions. I guess its up to you if you want to challenge the non-diagnosis and find a specialist (or 4) or accept what the Dr says as truth.

^^ a diagnosis should be objective and not based on the patient's wishes.

I admit, he/she must be a honest non-greedy psychiatrist.

In fact, that's AS....a syndrome which every symptom can be explained otherwise.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt56043.html

I would get a second opinion, if you can!!

Very strange.