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MrTyn
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11 Jun 2016, 10:53 am

I display a few characteristics that might possibly be labelled as autistic, but half suspect that the label aspie (or high-functioning ASD) probably doesn't really fit me, and it's a bit like a nickname I would prefer not to use for myself. I've had a few thoughts I might be ASDish since the seventies. But then I always defaulted to thinking of it as just life's normal depression. But a few things finally clicked into place just a few weeks back. Something has been 'wrong' since I can remember, for sure.

What I would really like to know here is if anyone in Thailand has ever succeeded in getting a local medical person to diagnose adulthood ASD or similar? I think it may never happen for me. And I'm now too long out of the home country to get any real help there either. Indeed, I'm not sure 'help' would be much help either. I have definitely met young people with ASD here, and possibly a few adults too. I sort of live in hope that something might materialise, but can probably live without diagnosis if necessary. I have visited a local specialist, but ended up feeling that I had strayed onto a taboo subject. We just ended talking about what I probably didn't have. But I think I'm expected to return, so I probably will - pushing the case much harder next time.



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11 Jun 2016, 3:52 pm

Hey MrTyn welcome. :sunny:


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17 Jun 2016, 5:38 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet! :)


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17 Sep 2017, 10:47 am

Now diagnosed, but if a new DSM were ever to drop me off the spectrum, I could probably be described as neurodiverse anyway. BTW, the neurological assessment was done in my home country.



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