![]() ![]() I have a ton of different diagnoses from as many doctors and therapists from over the course of my life. It's for my peace of mind, but it also has the advantage of being useful family medical information that I can pass along to my kids and grandkids. I just need to know, so I can answer a thousand personal questions about myself. I am over 60, and I don't need it to qualify for any kind of help or benefits at my age. I am seriously interested in getting an assessment for ‘Autism,’ or ‘ Autism Spectrum Disorder’ for Adults. #Hyperfocus #hypervigilant #SensoryOverstimulation #SensoryIssues #SensoryPain #ReactiveAttachmentDisorder #rad #MajorDepressiveDisorder #MDD #Dysthymia #Specialinterest #EFD #ExecutiveFunctionDisorder #executivedysfunction #RejectionSensitiveDysphoria #RSD #Autistic #actuallyautistic #audhd #ADHD #Autism #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #AutismAcceptance #Stimming #Dysgraphia #dyscalcula #pathologicaldemandavoidance #PDA #AutisticInertia #AutisticBurnout I am going to spend the rest of my years as a happy, grateful Autistic old dude. So to have the label removed from my records is removing a constant painful reminder of all the life that I missed in my youth and middle age. I feel like the majority of my life was wasted. I just have a major problem with being misdiagnosed for decades and spending the bulk of my money on therapy and prescriptions that kept me physically exhausted and in a heavy mental fog for decades, and didn't help me in any way. I don't have a problem with bipolar in itself. Now if I can get my General Practitioner to remove the bipolar label from my record there, I will feel like I can finally relax a little. That brings me back to yesterday, and the third psychiatrist to agree, and who added it into my medical record. Thereafter, I brought it up with my psychiatrist, and it took off from there. Then there were the internet tests, the books with tests, and finally talking to doctors and to Autistics.Įventually, I was convinced beyond any reason of a doubt that I myself was, and am Autistic. When she described her life and her challenges, she sounded to me like she was describing my own life.įrom that point onward, I started reading everything that I could get my hands on about the Autism Spectrum. I never had an inkling that I might be Autistic before sometime last summer, when I read a story in The Mighty by someone who found out accidentally that she was Autistic while she was having one of her children tested and assessed. This time he put it all on paper, and entered it into my medical records. Yesterday I saw my third psychiatrist in a row who told me I had never been bipoloar, but I am Autistic. That was the autumn of 2021, and I am still recovering now in February 2023. In my last year on the meds, I got lithium toxicity, and was rushed to a trauma center a hundred miles from home, and spent a week in ICU. I've written before about how I was misdiagnosed as bipolar for a few decades, and the therapies and various prescription medicines never helped me.
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