14 Apr 2017, 6:09 am
burnt_orange wrote:
firemonkey wrote:
ElabR8Aspie wrote:
Why do you need a validation from 'texts book' professionals?
Why not accept what you can and can't and beating to your own drum?
Sorry it fathoms me.
Why not accept what you can and can't and beating to your own drum?
Sorry it fathoms me.
Because it's through those professionals you get official recognition that you have problems, and hopefully help and support.
You are not just dismissed as awkward and troublesome ,or passive aggressive for struggling to cope with some things.
Ideally as I'm the expert on myself I'd like my opinion to count, but the reality is a psychologist who is less knowledgeable about me gets to decide.
As it is it's a 2 year wait. It's a long wait to potentially be told the only thing wrong with you is a f***ed up personality. I know I have Aspergic traits but what you know as a supposed non expert(but expert on yourself) and what some psychologist reckons can be two very different things.
Oh my goodness, why is it a 2 year wait?! ! That's just horrible health care. I'm in the US so it's very different.
I understand, as I am very very hesitant. It's a double edged sword. It can make life worse in many ways, and might help in a few ways. For now, I will hold off. It's not necessary yet for me. I don't need disability payments.
Having just read from their site it's over 2 years but expected to improve in the next 6-9 months with extra funding. Even if I wanted to set up a future appointment I am due to move out of the area within that time(something that's causing me considerable anxiety).
A thing that worries me about any possible future assessment is that past history will unduly influence the assessment process. After over 40 years as a plain vanilla psych patient ,and everything being attributed to that, it might be very difficult for people to be open minded and see beyond that.
It certainly makes it difficult as I can see myself having Aspergic traits but also have psych problems .
Here is a word cloud I made.
