How can I get autism diagnosed?
Hi, I'm a 19-year-old girl and I'm pretty sure I'm autistic. But because I feel like I'm going crazy without confirmation, I'd like to get diagnosed. I'm just wondering how I should go about it.
I've already asked my psychiatrist, but he said that health insurance only covers it for children, so I'd have to pay for it myself, and that their practice generally only diagnoses children. Then I contacted other clinics, and the ones who responded said it would cost around €600. I don't have the financial means to pay for it. I'm also in therapy, but my therapist said I can't have autism because I've had friendships in the past. Since her statement is wrong, I have a strong feeling she's not very knowledgeable about the topic, which isn't a bad thing (otherwise, she's the best therapist I've ever had), but I just don't want to talk to her about it anymore.
Are there any other ways I can handle this? Ideally, without having to pay €600? I really don't know what to do, but I just can't seem to cope anymore.
I also have a question about the diagnosis itself: Do the parents have to be present? I can't talk to my mother, and I have virtually no contact with my father.
Thank you very much in advance. 🙂
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And here, my dear fellow readers and fellow readers, let’s see again that therapists – and most of the doctors in Germany in general – do not have a faint of autism, keep their mouth shut and leave the matter to a real, expert expert.
It’s good that you know that the bullshit is, because many do not. You have every reason to stop talking to her about the subject. I wouldn’t want it, either, because I’d have been rushing out, in a last attempt not to lose my two remaining brain cells.
To check out the question of where: in a neurologist or optionally also a psychiatrist with a subject of autism. The latter is very important because not every neurologist/psychiater specializes in autism. All other doctors have no expertise in this, as they did not take this issue – autism – in their studies. So they could also have spent 50+ years studying: You still don’t know more about autism than a fly (or 85-90% of users on a good question, unfortunately).
This is simply and grippingly incorrect. How much Stus can doctors talk in just a good question question question question question? The answer is a lot.
My mother was diagnosed with 50 years – this is now 12 years ago – (4 years after my diagnosis) and she certainly didn’t have to pay for it and no 600€. I don’t know how this is happening with private health insurance companies, but I’m sure it’s not the case with statutory health insurance companies. Except in the last 12 years, what I cannot imagine has changed.
The problem will first be to find a neurologist/psychiater specialized in autism, who also diagnoses adults. They are still rarer, when the expert children’s eurologists/children’s psychiatrists are already. If you have found one like this – you might have to go to another state for the first date – it is important to wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And to wait and wait until it became too much for the old narrator and you had to hire a new one.
For what is longer than an anaconda (the longest serpent in the world and no, I didn’t know that before, I just got that for this answer)? The waiting list of patients for neurologists/psychiaters specialized in autism, in font size 6. You can be happy if they leave you at all on their waiting list and you have your first date in 6 months in your pocket, but up to 3 years (or even longer) are scaryly more plausible. (I’m glad I’m already diagnosed, my goodness.)
No, they don’t. My mother couldn’t take her parents back then. If it is possible, it is always better because the corresponding doctor can thus hear both sides and parents or other guardians who already know the potential autist from birth can usually respond much more to behavior that is “seenly” for many neurotypical/allistic people, which the autistic person himself does not notice. For: We autists find our autistic behavior in 99% of cases totally normal, such as breathing and blinking, and get only insecure about whether we are really as normal as we think when others tell us that we – in their eyes – are not normal.
Would you have another person who knows you very well and for a long time that could come with you?
If not, it’s not bad either. It’s like it is. Diagnostics is possible or so.
I’m afraid a fast, professional diagnostics/diagnosis is impossible. But if you have something to comfort yourself: should you notice that you have developed and developed (“)special(“) for autistic or otherwise neurodiverse/neurodivergente. mainly used by this group of people to help you with a (maybe) autism-specific problem (voice toys, weight blankets, noise cancelling headphones etc.) you are cordially invited to use these too. You may already know that, but not all do that or think, autists who (still) do not have their diagnosis would take away essential things from us “real autists(!)”.
Absolutely and 100% correct.
I apologise for any typos or randomly formulated sentences. Don’t want to read all my writing before I send it. I’ll do it tomorrow.
I thank you so much for your answer. The other answers here really made me very insecure. I could cry because yours is so nice! Unfortunately, I have no one who could replace my parents and go with me to a possible diagnosis as a statement. I don’t have any social contacts, because I’m very hard at that. 🙁 I will try to find and contact any specialist! Your answer really made me a bit of courage, I often doubt all this because I’m afraid I might just want to arrange myself somewhere. But I don’t think I’d worry about it for years if there wasn’t anything. Thanks again, you helped me very much! 🙂 💕
Aw, thank you very much! I’m glad I could help.
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Yeah, I see. I feel the same. But as I said, taking your parents or others is not a must.
Good luck, I’ll push you the balls!
That’s the way it is, in people who think they might have autism. The least one day wake up and decide: “Today I have Bock, to think I am autistic!”, but unfortunately some think.
And I also say that if you can identify yourself with us autists for years, feel understood by our problems and ways of thinking and macks, and you benefit from our tools, tips, tricks and techniques… then this doesn’t come from anywhere. The neurotypical and the neurodiverse brain are very different (the double-empathy problem is very interesting). Meaning a “brain type” will always best be able to understand its own “brain type”.
What does not necessarily mean that it is autism – it can also be another neurodivergent.
Well, good luck again and thank you for the dear words ^-^
You’re looking for confirmation from other people because you’re important to his opinion.
Just tell your family doctor. He’ll explain to you that you don’t have an autism.
Why do you think I don’t have an autism, even though you don’t even know me?
Sure, the pediatrician knows himself with autism from 😂
Not even most psychiatrists and therapists have an idea of autism. It took 10 years to get my own diagnosis of an autism outpatient.
You are as autistic as the FS
I don’t know what to write, except that I don’t know a single diagnosed adult in which the pediatrician has come up with the idea that it might be autism, and now I know 16 of them.
And most of them have always been in psychiatric treatment. The autism diagnosis always comes last.
Professional experience is also part of it.
Because there are too many hypochonders today and the annoyed are annoyed. My wife and I work in the medical field. The people googling their diagnosis and thus blocking practices
How’s that going? Doctors learn at most what of autism when they do a training.
And then why are there so many undiagnosed adults?
Then I’d change the doctor. Modern practices are better informed.
No, actually, because I’ve been with my family doctor since I was a little boy, and he also knew my father and grandfather of whom I inherited it. For another 10 years in psychiatric treatment and 4 hospital stays behind me, but no one came to autism.
About autism less but about psychology and the questioning suggests less. The pediatrician still has some psychological questions to confirm or not.
A neurologist +1 Eeg can say more, but you go to the family doctor for the transfer.
Was that understood enough?
Well, if someone suggests you can’t be autistic, because the family doctor who has seen a film in the study at most does not recognize it, then you don’t have to understand these people now.
No, you just didn’t understand the statement, I can’t do that. Have a good day.
I am actually, after all, it has confirmed the autism ambulance of the Ludwigs Maximilian University as well as the only established psychiatrist in Munich who is able to diagnose autism in adults 🙃
So whoever goes to the family doctor to diagnose autism is brutally lost.
Your psychiatrist told you weak.
The health insurance also pays an ASS diagnosis in adults.
You just have to wait extremely long for a first appointment because there are hardly any psychiatrists who know a) with autism and b) diagnose adults.
What your therapist claims is for me the proof that she has no idea of the subject.
In terms of autism, you have come to incompetent people.
So ignore their talk and take care of an appointment.
Just read your comment in demand:
If you want to do this and not name the symptoms in question, it will probably be imaginary autism.
With the symptoms, I could presume whether they belong to ASS or even indicate something else.
Thanks for your comment, the upper part has helped me a bit! 🙂 But I don’t understand why you all want to give me your assessment here because I didn’t ask for it at all. In my question, it does not stand, but I really did a lot of things about it, and I do not think that since yesterday, but for years. I know that you all don’t mean that badly, but that here strangers write that I’m talking about it just doesn’t make sense because you don’t know me and that’s why I don’t want to hear an assessment. I wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t really think so, and I don’t want to justify myself.
I can only contribute little to it because I just don’t know the stories with the health insurance etc. I can only assume the facts in your question. But I see something else that I think is problematic:
Whether psychiatrists, psychologists or other therapists – all have successfully completed several years very special trainings. However, you have made yourself a diagnosis without any training and you want it to be confirmed by a professional.
This doesn’t fit – especially in this special case you have to rely on the professionals. If there was a weighty argument that would speak for it, either the psychiatrist or therapist would have already advised in this direction.
I don’t understand why you’re telling me this. You don’t know my situation. I just asked for help and not how others estimate my chances of being autistic. Many autistic persons, especially women, find themselves that they might have autism and seek a psychiatrist or something because they are not recognized by the “professionals”.
You don’t seem to know that therapists, psychiatrists and co. learn nothing (or only extremely little) about autism in their normal studies.
In order to be able to diagnose autism, it takes an additional study.
This is normal that therapists and psychiatrists do not agree for the first time, they do not learn about autism in their studies. It was with me and many I’ve met.
Search an approved psychiatrist to get an official diagnosis
You’ll have to pay the 600€ and then you can get out that you don’t have an autism.