ASD/ADHD and Right to Choose

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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 2,457 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/940466#Comment_940466

    Hell no I'm 53 and just been put on list I probley 57 when assessed and its really important to me as I can image it is for you too ! Well it's important because if you do get diagnosed work would have to put in reasonable adjustments not just that it's important for us all our life's struggling we been robbed of many years decades literally decades makes me so angry id go back and insist or I'd see another doctor your life your choice do not let them gaslight you x

  • NDME
    NDME Community member Posts: 14 Connected

    Ask another doctor. I've just been referred RTC and I'm even older. After and ADHD diagnosis in July.

    After a whole life lived in a secret battle no one knows anything about, it would gelp me make peace with myself.

    In fact I would ask to change doctors pronto. Which I do around 3 years ago. My doctor is lovely and I can completely open up to her. I rarely engaged with doctors before then, so my medical records are sparse.

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,349 Online Community Team
    edited November 14
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/940466#Comment_940466

    I would honestly complain about such a response. Putting aside whether an assessment was right or not the doctor shouldn't be talking to you like that. I can't imagine much would come of it but things like this do bother me a lot when they come from the professionals who are supposed to have some idea of how these conditions can affect a person.

    I would also, as others have recommended, speak to another doctor about this.

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