Thinking of getting a 2nd or 3rd opinion

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I'm considering joining a disability employment agency to look for a new job, but I lost the phone number of the psychotherapist that diagnosed me. Also, I wouldn't fully trust him to give the agency information anyway, because I got into a quarrel with him. So, this is the reason I have been thinking of getting another opinion. How do you find local autism spectrum centers, or places where people test you for disabilities?

Good luck with that.

The State Department of Labor and Workforce Development (at the unemployment office) should handle that. You wait (weeks?) until you can make an appointment with a caseworker (I forget his title) who sends you to a shrink for a diagnosis, at the State's expense. When the caseworker gets all the right papers, he'll give you a list of agencies you're allowed to go to, again at the State's expense.

If they find you a job, the employer gets a tax break for hiring a disabled person and matching funds through any probation or training period, up to six months. For example, if the job is normally $20 per hour, the state pays $10 of it and the company pays $10.

That's the theory, anyway. It didn't work for me.

Catatonic. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt91016.html

Use Google? You could search for the name of your town + autism and sort through the results.