Hey guy need help approaching a GP

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Hey guys

My name as you can see is Stevee, am 21 and have albinism, dyslexia and dyspraxia however the past 7 years I have queeried having aspergers as especally the traits and criteria in my juvernile years til the age of 18 are all on the ball, as most of you are aware dyslexia and dyspraxia are all autistic traits and I struggle greatly with social interaction, I want the diagnosis mainly just for closure and to kno how to work around it. I hve a friend with aspergers to and our traits are very similar for example we never and I myself never make eye contact I despise it, my interests to are very narrow mainly computing and history/biological diseases, I know it sounds twisted.

The questio is however I want advice as I have an appointment with a GP for a psychologica assessent I have has my mum complete a checklist recommeneded by my university. I am pretty high functioning IQ of 130 but I don't know how to raise the question I struggle with situation like this and have been thinking about it over and over again just to think of a way. My um however is not going qwwith me which is fine in my case am reletivly independent and I was thinking of ging in the room sitting down taking a few breathes and just saying I amhere for a referral as I have thought have asergers for many years and then digress with symptoms and this checklist which is based with my juvernile pogression an traits

it is on monday so A reply would be much welcome and appreciated

thanks

what I am tryng to ask does this seem the most logical way to go about the situation

Your description does make you sound like you have Aspie traits. I myself was diagnosed with PDD at 18 mos. by a developmental pediatrician. I would suggest going to this GP (sorry I do not know what GP stands for) and just explaining why you think you have AS as you said.

Go in relaxed and make sure you explain yourself clearly and give her/him the survey/paper from your university as a reference point. I have no idea where you are from, so I don't know if your GP will use the DSM IV to diagnose you. You might want to get or look in a copy of one to check if the survey, its criteria, and your symptoms/personality characteristics match up. If that does not work, just trust your gut (may sound stupid but it works).

Good Luck

p.s. Feel free to pm me

Thank you very much most helpful indeed, I have done the aspie quiz and got 197 out of 200, U have a juvernile checklist which is pretty tcked laughs sardonically. I have know the chararasristics and their symptoms, well I am, 3 members of my family themselves are autisitc my cousin has ADHD and her father and his brother, my 2 uncles have aspregers, mother's side.

I am from herefordshire luckily the doctor is female I find females a lot easier to talk to for some reason, not because they ar attractive at all glares at onlookers. The worring factor of this is herefordshire is a backward county and quite poor but if not my region where my university is quite forward thinking and is a good NHS doctors, however I refuse to go private for diagnosis as some people have don which makes me somewhat synical as private doctors are just tools of the system, a person I know is private and aspergic with very low people say I am more aspie than him laughs sardoically.

Welcome to WP!

I am much older and I have a healthy contempt for most doctors, especially psychiatrists.

You are the boss. You are paying them and if you don't like them then take your business somewhere else.

hnks so much guys I am not taking my mum to stop the glaring, its not like we have a high level relationship I don't tak much I only feel comfortable to be honest in forums as for example here we are in the same area and feel not part of this crazy world,

in the UK by the way unfotunately the NHS is a failue service of baurocracy and money squanering

I have 28 hours now really scared keep thinkng what to say I do in all situations including meeting an aquantance etc, i heard this is usual aspie tendancy i have done this all my life.

I am just terrified of beng denied the truth if yu understand, I am happy though that the doctor is a female eaier to approach but I'llstill be averting eye cntact and hand flapping I do that in ocial situations do you think she will understand this and realise oh he is actuall aspergic as I am techncally autistic anyway I just want closure and toeventually make awareness of aspergers and that it is not a cure but difficult fr me social definately.

any advice gus I am so scared I think for once in a long tim am actually near meltdown, i need a lava lamp. thanks gys as I rell appreciate it thisweekend has been nerve wracking I keep thinkig about it 24 7