"How do you triage Asperger's?"

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This is why I am calling this place AS County"

I go to the emergency room for an attack that I think is a combination of a sudden change in mood medication and maybe a meltdown. I hear quite loudly from a nurse in the hallway "How do you triage Aspergers?"

The psych doc just said I had "atypical bipolar" but I got AS mentioned to me by a clinician, medical doctor and now this enigmatic declaration from a nurse.

I got sent home, but the question "How do you triage Aspergers?" still remains. Many of my meltdowns end up inpatient psych treatment without autism being addressed. Meltdowns are like an explosion that ends... How do you judge how severe that is and if inpatient treatment is appropriate if the person starts feeling better? Why offer help for the bipolar and not the AS?

I don't think that's the kind of thing you should be going to the emergency room with. As for her comment it might have been sarcastic, basically hinting that you shouldn't really be going to the emergency room.

As for bipolar, that can be medicated but Aspergers can't.

This question is actually about who should be treated first in an emergency room. Is your condition getting better or worse by waiting, vs others also waiting, and in various states.