getting diagnosed

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Not that I'd in any way recommend you do this, but here's how my diagnosis route began.

Little brother was tapping the wall and whistling and I was scratching myself - believe this is stimming, I do it to calm down. I asked him to stop it to which he did it louder and made a snarky little 16-year-old response and I snapped. Grabbed the scissors and made 3 slashes just like that. Each one was deeper than the last. The first barely broke the skin, the second went through a couple layers, but the third was the problem. Exposed my tissue, so I had this massive yellow hole. So yeah, went to A&E, and because it was self inflicted had to see people once it was stitched up. Don't really want to think back so much but I was stuck in a room for 8 hours because they thought I was going to kill myself since I couldn't create a suicide action plan or answer their questions. Wasn't until they got someone else in who recognised autism. The other guy thought I couldn't answer him because I was severely suicidal, but she saw it as poor social skills. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be at home now. I'm waiting for them to make an appointment but they will probably wait until after my 18th birthday to do anything. Still waiting diagnosis.

But I.... don't think that's the regular route, hell I have no idea if this has happened to anyone before.

Autism is diagnosed based on problems so if they don't see any problem nothing will be done. So maybe you have to show them *no I am not implying you cut yourself* by making a list of problems you face or going in on a bad day to make a nice scene for them . If you face problems a diagnosis will be worth it I'm sure.

So what I was saying is that it was a different route for referral rather than ask a doctor for it. So I have no idea how you get past them, but my route was definitely worse and they weren't going to let me home. The mental health system in general needs fixing.