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  • DarkFallout
    DarkFallout Posts: 209 Forumite
    I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was 33.

    I honestly believed being diagnosed would help me but all it has done is hinder me.

    You are constantly told what you can't won't be able to do & in the end you believe them.

    My GP told me today that maybe in 5 years time I might be able to get a little part time job doing something that i'm interested in but that i'll never be able to work full time or in a factory/warehouse environment.

    I was gutted, I honestly thought that I would be able to overcome my difficulties but my GP doesn't think I will as her brother has Asperger's so she has alot of experience.

    Maybe it's people telling us that we are disabled/have a disability that makes us think we are/do.

    Diagnosed with Aspergers at 33.

    Not at 33 months, but when 33 years old.

    OMG or LOL.

    There was one GP in the area where I am living now and she allegedly suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. She diagnosed so many people with chronic fatigue syndrome before getting retired that there is still a trace. And of course most of them never have had CFS.
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    edited 10 July 2010 at 11:06AM
    Savvy_Sue wrote: »
    Onw, I can't quite make sense of those posts: I know that if I couldn't cope with working, motherhood and marriage, working would be the first to go!

    Presumably you're in a marriage where your husband would support you financially if you couldn't cope - that's the difference.

    It's a bit like saying that you can work AND "have a life" (something that many people say on here) and choosing not to work.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 4,176 Forumite
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    Diagnosed with Aspergers at 33.

    Not at 33 months, but when 33 years old.

    OMG or LOL.

    There was one GP in the area where I am living now and she allegedly suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. She diagnosed so many people with chronic fatigue syndrome before getting retired that there is still a trace. And of course most of them never have had CFS.

    Thats offensive. A GP with some odd or personal involvement with the condition do not diagnose Aspergers, a consultant psychiatrist does.

    It is also a well known fact amongst professionals and those who live with AS either as family or the diagnosed person that back in that back in the 70's AS and Autism were not very well understood by the medical profession and certainly not diagnosed. In the same way many other conditons were not or the treatment was vastly different then to how it is today.

    It's called progress through medical research dear.
  • Trialia
    Trialia Posts: 1,108 Forumite
    _shel wrote: »
    Thats offensive. A GP with some odd or personal involvement with the condition do not diagnose Aspergers, a consultant psychiatrist does.

    It is also a well known fact amongst professionals and those who live with AS either as family or the diagnosed person that back in that back in the 70's AS and Autism were not very well understood by the medical profession and certainly not diagnosed. In the same way many other conditons were not or the treatment was vastly different then to how it is today.

    It's called progress through medical research dear.

    Plus, women are usually diagnosed later as we seem to learn to mask it better through being heavily socialised.
    Homosexual, Unitarian, young, British, female, disabled. Do you need more?
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    _shel wrote: »
    Thats offensive. A GP with some odd or personal involvement with the condition do not diagnose Aspergers, a consultant psychiatrist does.
    .

    From what BCS has said, it was her GP that diagnosed her. I'm sure she'll correct me if I'm wrong.
  • devildog
    devildog Posts: 1,222 Forumite
    Interesting thread which has prompted me to ask this question so if any of you good people have the answer :)

    Teenager has chronic somewhat disabling disease but is not in receipt of DLA, was planning to go to one of the big theme parks this summer(Thorpe Park/Alton Towers) Would he be entitled to use the facility where you don't have to queue as long for the rides? If so, what would he need to do/take to prove his condition?
  • DarkFallout
    DarkFallout Posts: 209 Forumite
    edited 10 July 2010 at 9:02AM
    _shel wrote: »
    Thats offensive. A GP with some odd or personal involvement with the condition do not diagnose Aspergers, a consultant psychiatrist does.

    It is also a well known fact amongst professionals and those who live with AS either as family or the diagnosed person that back in that back in the 70's AS and Autism were not very well understood by the medical profession and certainly not diagnosed. In the same way many other conditons were not or the treatment was vastly different then to how it is today.

    It's called progress through medical research dear.

    It is usually diagnosed by a panel of consultants and from the posts of the person that I alegedly offenced I understood that she was diagnosed by her GP.

    Aspergers's is meant to be debilitating condition with severe problems in social interaction and in this particular case it should have been catched up in the school years in the 80ties.

    Currently it is fashionable and overdiagnosed in UK with tens of thousands of people having personalitiy disorders or just odd/different behaviour or different cognition pattern labeled to have Asperger's and if they were living in another country they would be never put in such diagnostic group/label.

    P.S. ... Dear ...
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 4,176 Forumite
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    From what BCS has said, it was her GP that diagnosed her. I'm sure she'll correct me if I'm wrong.

    If thats the case IMAO this is rather dodgy because a GP is not qualifed to make such an assessment unless they also happen to be a qualified and registered psychiatrist.
  • Trialia
    Trialia Posts: 1,108 Forumite
    *adds another person to her ignore list*

    devildog, I would imagine so but I don't know for sure, haven't been to a theme park in a very long time. Sorry.
    Homosexual, Unitarian, young, British, female, disabled. Do you need more?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 4,176 Forumite
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    It is usually diagnosed by a panel of consultants and from the posts of the person that I alegedly offenced I understood that she was diagnosed by her GP.

    Aspergers's is meant to be debilitating condition with severe problems in social interaction and in this particular case it should have been catched up in the school years in the 80ties.

    Currently it is fashionable and overdiagnosed in UK with tens of thousands of people having personalitiy disorders or just odd/different behaviour or different cognition pattern labeled to have Asperger's and if they were living in another country they would be never put in such diagnostic group/label.

    P.S. ... Dear ...

    Yes Dear :D but full understanding a regular assessment and diagnosis didnt start happening until the mid 90's at which point many of the older people now being dignosed were out of the education system and already diagnosed with some form of mental health condition.
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