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Why are the so called disability gov companies so rigid n why is there different diogosing standards for differant countries like UK a d USA

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I have asperger and when I have tried to dieognised I have been turned away. I am 43. As I was growing up from a child my perants didn't know much about it,they just knew I had trouble with certain things and highly sensitive. The 3 biggest things I remember isi couldt ride a bike (i still cant), very sensitive(when my dad put a snow ball down my back when I was 9 I think I screamed ), I spent a lot of time playing alone and enjoyed it.

Since being a child I have always felt closer to people with autism and dyspraxia,I just didt know why.

Through my life i have found out autism runs in my family. After a fight I gota to see a so called professional from 2gether trust. I went with my partner if 13 years (seems like a life time as we have been through so much), they said they saw bits of autism in me but because i didt tick all there boxes they wouldn't help me. Years after I saw a mental health nurse about this a she kept fobbing me off, saying I have this or it maybe that but it's not aspergers as they could do what you did. I managed to get my dad to come with me and that didt make any difference. The last thing I said was I prefer animals then people, I couldt explain why at the time so the nurse said is it because they don't answer back. I gave up by this point and just agreed so I could get out.

I prefer animals as there less complicated. They do answer back by not doing what there told,that's fine though as animals are so much nicer than people. Less completed.

I'm a father of 3, 2 of them are step children. The mother is the mother of all 3, ages are 10, 26 and 21.

All I want is to help people like I am, that's all i have ever wanted from the age of 5.

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