Diagnosis is not imminent. The BBC this weekend featured a story that one health authority in England is to restrict diagnosis for autism to the most severe cases, whatever that means. Who decides the most severe before diagnosis? Isn't that what diagnosis is about? Story here. As an adult I have been told, after being strongly …
Tag: Asperger’s Syndrome.
Tolerance
You are clearly a tolerant person, who is thoughtful about the needs of other people. So says a quiz on the Guardian web site. So it must be right — uch to the dismay of those who know me. The quiz was called are you as nice as you think you are, so that would …
Diabetic
On Friday I was diagnosed as diabetic. This was, of course, a shock, on top of my other medical and other problems: Arthritis in the talonavicular joint in the right foot. Eyesight which although corrected by glasses does not respond quickly to changes in light intensity. Suspected Asperger's syndrome. (Okay, this last one isn't medical). …
Killed by one punch…
Two things I have blogged about. Cycling and Asperger's. Well not so much Asperger's, only one previous blog on that. But the two came together in an article in Metro, Wednesday 26th February and on the letters page the following day. The story was bout the light sentence a man had receives for killing another …
Anger Management
On Tuesday I visited the doctor. I was wanting to know what had happened to the anger management treatment I was supposed to be getting, things had stalled, it had been nearly a year since I last heard from anything, so it was time to get things kick started. The last I heard I was …
Making an ass of myself 