Autistic Hedgehog
RSSi hope its ok if i ask you for advice bc im on the end of my rope rn. so i found out recently i actually have a history of autism on both sides of my family and in doing research i realised i fit most of the criteria & ive been looking to get an actual diagnosis bc it would make my school life SO much easier but when i went to my gp first she googled aspergers for reference then referred me to a psychiatrist who refused to even discuss the subject and just? where can i go from here? im so lost
Anonymous
The first thing to do is try asking your GP for a new referral. Explain that the psychiatrist she referred you to refused to even talk to you about it. It may take some time to get the referral, but she ought to be willing and able to do it. There’s a big difference between someone saying you don’t have autism and someone refusing to even discuss it, so in this case, you didn’t actually remotely get what you went to the psychiatrist for.
It might help to do some research and see if you can find any autism specialists in your area that your GP can refer you to. Whatever else, and I know this is hard, but try to be firm and clear with your GP so that she understands exactly what the problem is. If you need to, write down what you want to say beforehand, just in case your brain does the Autism Nope on you. I’ve walked out of a lot of doctors’ offices without saying what I wanted to because of that.
Start there, and see what happens.
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