Re: Re: Thanks to the listserv ... and my PDD/NOS diagnosis ...

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A formal diagnosis appears on your medical record and is a legal document.

With that you are automatically covered under the DDA as amended but

only if a body is told.

In practice it's unlikely to help much with government services, there

is nothing anyway. I'm not expecting change any time soon.

If you push the NHS the Aston document ought to get you taken seriously

and a formal assessment done. I guess you need to get a GP on your side.

I guess you would be better shown as AS, PDD-NOS is widely misunderstood.

Did Aston get all your medical records? It needs those and usually

independent evidence from another person about how you were as a child,

why it can be very difficult getting a formal diagnosis as an adult.

If you have to go onto what was disability (sick leave) a diagnosis

might help trip a PCA which would keep you out of the clutches of the

job service and prolonged abuse. It would also allow some bypass of the

excesses there, you are a disabled person.

This is new http://www.dwp.gov.uk/welfarereform/employment.asp

In theory anyone spectrum should blow the top on points but it is

largely nonsense, lot it does not say.