My doctor ordered me a pack of forms and questionnaires to request an assessment for adult autism. In amongst the medical histories and self assessments, this question stuck out;

it is important to know that not everyone who is referred to our service will have a diagnosis of autism confirmed. In the space below, tell us how you think having an autism diagnosis confirmed, or not, might impact on you and your life

What’s going on here? Do you get asked this for other conditions? We’re a community that typically struggles to read between the lines, so I could be way off, but this feels grudging to me. It’s a question that says - what’s the point of us even offering this service, and why are you so special that we should waste our time on you?

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I understood the question as asking if you have always felt weird and not the like other persons and you expect the autism diagnosis to explain it then there’s a chance that it wasn’t autism that made you feel different and you are just different/ We don’t know why you feel like that yet.