as someone officially diagnosed with autism YOU DO NOT WANNA BE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE YOU READ A BOOK ABOUT FROGS AND PLAY WITH TOYS AS PART OF YOUR ASSESSMENT THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i know this sounds like an overexaggerated joke but i have to stress i am not fucking playing with you here. they have you read a children's PICTURE BOOK and explain what's going on page by page (apparently it's to see if you can tell a story and not just point out details) and then bring out a small bag of miniature toys and make some kind of story or whatever with them as well. i am not fucking joking, i dont know if this is JUST a uk thing but it was part of my assessment. i was 16 or 17 at the time.
when i took the test i pointed out that it's ridiculous to try to use a method obviously made with young kids in mind to diagnose autism in a 14 year old and when we got the results it said I 'possibly had mild aspergers but the results didn't say much' because I was too logical and good at eye contact to be autistic. i wish I was making this up
oh and while we're on the topic, more seriously, any time i would EVER try and bring something up about my mental health to my camhs worker (aka my therapist for people not in the know), she would ALWAYS tell me it was just autism and i didn't need any treatment for it. i wasn't even medicated until i had a month-long panic attack last year (was something completely unrelated but still) and NEEDED to be put on something, yet my boyfriend at the time had the exact same worker and was medicated, and she told me to my face "you're not unwell enough to be medicated". i left camhs in 2020 because i turned 18 and they automatically kick you out when you're an adult, and it took until february 2021 and the worst breakdown of my life for action to be taken. NEVER trust someone with a psychology degree, they are not taught about people
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