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Sadly, these unlucky ones left school by 15 years old, with no qualifications on paper, and many have been unemployed for long periods if not continuously, ever since. And then — somehow — they heard that AS exists. Whatever their age, they are asked to come with a parent or someone who knew them as a child, so that a diagnosis can be made not only using information from the patient themselves, but also from an independent observer.
Because so much research and clinical practice has focused on early diagnosis, there were precious few clinical tools available for the diagnosis of adults with suspected AS. All of these methods have been published and are available for free via our website at www. Patients come from all over the UK, so the most we can offer is to confirm or rule out the diagnosis. The recommendations also frequently include encouraging the person to contact the NAS to find out about local support groups, the sheltered employment agency Prospects , the befriending service, and sheltered accommodation if needed.
For most people, even receiving the diagnosis comes as an immense relief and is itself a form of intervention, since now they have a way of making sense of a lifetime of feeling different. Some join chat rooms for AS on the internet, and meet other people like themselves. Some justifiably take pride in their new identity as someone with AS, since AS is not just a medical condition causing social difficulties but is also a personality style in which the individual shows superior attention to detail, the capacity to go deeply into narrow subjects, a talent at recalling systematic and patterned information dates and other numerical information , and which can result in remarkable artistic, scientific or technical skill.
Local services often find it hard to decide whose responsibility AS is: social services, education, health, mental health, learning difficulties? Whilst each agency passes the buck onto the other, the person with AS may be left floundering, their needs still as unmet as they were in their school days. We are still a long way away from what should be an expectation by families and by those with AS: that after someone receives a diagnosis of AS — at any age — the system picks up that person and puts together an appropriate package of support for them.
Is this due to lack of funding? This allows them to get the treatment and therapy they need throughout their formative years and helps them better adjust to society.
This is often the case for people with Asperger syndrome. So, why are late diagnoses so common? Treatments Access Services Insurance.
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