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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
I´ve been searching for a new T after I got badly terminated about half a year ago. I´ve been grieving my former T, who I saw for 12 sessions, and that´s partly why it has been difficult to find a new T.
Today I met with a new T who I´ve seen for only two sessions before, evaluations. I´ve told her I´ve seen more than 10 T:s in evaluation before I met with her. That is, I´ve just seen one therapist for a regular therapy.
The T I saw for 12 sessions had more than 30 years of experience, she was a psychologist with training in evaluating psychiatric diagnoses. She wasn´t a psychiatrist though. She never ever mentioned anything about her thinking of me as having a diagnosis. I´m 30+ and noone at school or something like that has ever told me or my parents they think I have a diagnosis.
I also did the autism/aspberger quiz here at PC and there was no indication I have such a diagnosis.
I´m now very upset about this, I´ve been struggling for so long to find a T. But I can´t see how meeting many T:s for evaluation is a reason for suspecting a diagnoses? She of course didn´t say she was sure but still, she recommended me to do a psychiatric evalution.
When I saw the first T, whom I really liked, I also felt better and suddenly this T talks about diagnosis. I have another appointment with this T next week but I don´t know if I´ll go because of this.
Have someone experienced something similar? Is it really possible or even ethical to talk about diagnoses as she is no psychiatrist? And after just two sessions?
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As someone married to a man with a diagnosis of AS (Asperger's SYndrome) and one of our children also diagnosed, I would have thought that if this is something you really do have then some characteristics/symptoms of it would have been spotted before now. Your parents, teachers etc would have noticed something. But I do also know that girls and woman who are mildly on the spectrum can be very good at masking AS characteristics - I believe it is sometimes harder to spot in girls. I know of two women whose T's suspected they had AS but a later diagnostic test by a properly trained professional proved they did not.
There are a lot of reasons why someone (anyone) might show signs that are common signs of having AS. For that reason only properly trained professionals can make a real diagnosis. Your T obviously noticed something that might indicate AS - but not necessarily. You could ask her what it was that made her say that?
If, where you are, means you need a diagnosis for therapy (different here in the UK) then make sure the person doing the diagnostic test is correctly trained and qualified to do so.
Don't 'label' yourself with anything. You're uniquely you whether you have a diagnosis for AS or anything else for that matter - or not.
Take care.