Autism: The struggles of suspected patients battling long waiting lists

Growing up Amy always felt different not understanding the way her friends thought struggling to keep ey contact and seen as weird for obsessing about certain topics but 18 months after asking her GP for an assessment for autism she’s still waiting instead she decided to read about it herself I

Actually cried at some passages and I underlined a lot and everything because I had never experienced anyone articul ating these feelings and thoughts that I had that I couldn’t even articulate myself at times it affected Amy’s mental health and she’s not alone in a survey 93% of autistic people said the state of

Their mental health was having an impact on their life with 70% receiving no professional support and only 6% describing the help they’d been given as having met their needs the research also revealed that three three in five people had had to wait more than a year to be

Assessed on the NHS during which time in many cases their mental health had taken a turn for the worst that’s despite the target being a wait of no more than 13 weeks the study was carried out by an organization called brain in hand which provides digital and onetoone help for

Those with autism most of whom get it publicly funded it estimates there could be as many as 1.5 million people with autism in the UK the number of people who are autistic in this country and the outcomes that they will experience things like a higher chance of suicide

Um less likely to be in work it feels like it’s a sort of Public Health crisis that hasn’t been acknowledged a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social care said they know how vital a timely diagnosis of autism is and have made £ 4.2 million available this year to

Improve services for autistic children and young people but Amy has waited so long she’s found a therapist herself I know a lot of people are not in the position that I am and are not able to pay for therapist themselves and I I can’t imagine how how difficult it must

Be for them now it’s her second Christmas waiting to be diagnosed with no indication of when that might happen Emma Burley Sky News

New research has found that three in five individuals on the autism diagnosis waiting list still haven’t been assessed after a year – despite the target being 13 weeks.

And according to a new survey, 70% of people with autism have received no support at all, despite 93% of them saying the state of their mental health is having an impact on their life – as Sky’s Emma Birchley reports.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/long-waiting-lists-and-no-support-the-struggles-of-suspected-autism-patients-13037569

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  1. سًـآلَتُتُك 💔بالله الجَليلُ الْجَبَّارَ ان تنقذَنَا قَبْلُ أَن نَفوَتْ مِّنْ شِدِتْ الجوع : قال عز وجل [[مَا أفَاءَ اللهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْقُرَىٰ فَلِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُول وَلِذِي الْقُرْبَى وَالْيَتُمَى وَالْمَسْكِينِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيلِ كَيْ لَا يَكُونَ دُولَةً بَيْنَ الْأَغْنِيَاءِ مِنكُمْ وَمَا عَاتَيْكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَنكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ ]] انَيَ انْتُحْيَكِ اني ذخلَةٍ عَلَى الله ثمَّ عليكِ انَيَ فَيَ وَجهك اني اختكِ اني اتْرَجَاكِ اتْوَسِلُ الْيَكِ انَقَذَنَا لُوَجه الله. يَشِهِدِ اللهُ يَحْيَ انَ مَنْ الْصَبَاحُ حُثا الانَ يَحْرَمُ علينا الاكل غير الماء ) اخواني اني اقسم بالله العلي العظيم على كتاب الله انني بنت يتيمه من اليمن ومعي اخوان صغار اقسم بالله على كتاب الله ان اخوتي ماعاد يقدرو ينطقو بكلمة من شدت الجوع وصاحب البيت يريد الإجار او بيخرجنا إلى الشارع و اني اسالك بالله وانشدك بمحمد رسول الله يا اخي لوانت مسلم وتحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني ان تتواصل معي او تراسلني وتساب على هذا الرقم 00967734949759 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولا تتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير فيااخي انت رجال إذا شفت اسرتك جاوعين تعمل المستحيل من اجل تامن لهم الاكب ولكن انابنت عيني بصيره ويدي قصيره ليس لي اب مثلك يسمح دمعتي ويحميني من الذل والاهانة😭 مع واخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وانقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع نتبهدل او نموت من الجوع انا اقسم بالله الذي رفع سبع سموات بلا عمدوبسط الارض ومهداني لااكذب عليك بحرف من هذا الرساله واني ماطلبتك إلى من ضيق ومن قسوت الضروف والحال الذي احنافيه وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعدتنا لاتتاخر علينا هاذارقمي وتساب 00967715734853علينا جزاك الله خير الجزاء.'.'.'..' '.'.'.😢😢😢😢🎉😢😢🎉🎉😢🎉🎉😢😢🎉🎉😢😢🎉😢😢😢…………………………

  2. My ADHD assessment has a two year wait and my autism assessment has a three year one. I'm 31 years old now.

  5. im waiting for an adha, borderline personality disorder, and autism assesments. i got refused because i said i drink a couple of beers on a friday. i was told to get drink counsiling before they would even see me. are these people crazy ? or is this just a way to try and save money even my local mp cant get a clear answer from them if i can go private get assesed so i can get help then. im still waiting on an answer from the nhs

  9. I am properly austistic one day i get tested i am to buzzy getting tested for over stuff at the moment so when that done maybe

  11. Everyone with illness is waiting for treatment. The NHS is not fit for purpose frankly. The blue or red one will not fix it either way.

  18. I know that this is probably more down to a lack of understanding on the part of healthcare professionals rather than an over-long waiting list, but it was a matter of decades before my Asperger's was diagnosed.

  21. I have ADHD was lucky I got diagnosed with in one to two weeks it wasn't the waiting list for me that was the problem it was the
    Doctor who wouldn't send me to see a mental health professional the second time I had to ask I told the Dr I was going to repeatedly ring the doctors surgery until they sent me, most of the research I had done myself also + it was 6 months before first lockdown, my son was diagnosed with ADHD after I was a year later, I had been fighting his primary school psychologist.

  22. I also believe I have undiagnosed long term Autism. Nobody 'gets me', I think and socially interact differently to most people, I have suffered throughout my life as a result. My own philosophy is that the education system teaches people to learn and 'think' within very fixed parameters based on academia. People who think and learn outside of these parameters are often very misunderstood. If only the education system and the people who orchestrate it accommodated different ways of thinking, then I believe some of the mental health issues surrounding Autism could be avoided.

  25. My nephew has autism and he’s 24 and he’ll never live a normal life. He still believes in things like the Easter Bunny…

    While I have no doubt that the woman being profiled has her challenges, I am truly glad that she isn’t so handicapped that she’s incapable of living an independent life and making her own decisions.

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