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Originally Posted by Spire_69
Thanks for the welcome, guys. Oops, I forgot to include why I was asking the question. I'm worried doctors are going to write me off as just being another adult who is looking for an excuse as to why I fail at things. I find it very hard to talk to doctors and I don't make eye contact at all. It's led to one neurologist dismissing me instantly because I could barely stammer out why the doctor referred me to him and I couldn't make eye contact with him because there was a nurse in the room. I'm very,very socially, awkward and shy, talking to doctors make me feel like I don't really have anything wrong with me but I'm trying to make up a story. I suppose I really could use some professional help... 
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Well, therapy might help with that - still difficult if you're very shy or have social anxiety, but you can build up a relationship over time that might help you learn better skills for situations like that. A
lot of us feel like we're faking although we're not (we just don't really know what normal is like and therefore assume what we experience is normal) and it's not unusual for people with mental illnesses or other brain disorders to question their diagnosis and disbelieve it, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Another strategy that could help is to write down what you need to tell your docs before you go. Then if you get all tongue-tied, you have a prompt to help you get the right message across. I do this because I often forget something that I know is important to talk about. And I've seen people on PC recommending printing out your own posts to take to a doctor or therapist, because sometimes we're better at expressing ourselves here than we are at the office. You could even just hand them a list of your symptoms and let that start the conversation, rather than trying to start by saying something that's hard for you to express.