Just had my support worker visit again today and she helped with filling in the form that another adult had to fill in for me (I answered it and she signed it), and then it for me to post.
I discussed to her that I previously had 2 opinions only from 'mental health nurses', one back in early 2018, and one last year that the mental health nurses both said after many assessments and appointments that I 100% had higher functioning autism, but each time the lead psychiatrist dismissed that by saying things like:
1) 'How can you autism if you are talking to me fine right now and have a degree?'
2) 'Were not saying it isnt Autism, but you were hit as a child so its more likely PTSD and Personality Disorder. This is too difficult for us to diagnose because the symptoms overlap
Both these are written in fancier words on the documents in my medical history.
The support worker, like the two mental health nurses in the past straight up said 'I can tell every time I visit and talk to you that you have autism', and she's not the first person to say as such (people I have personally known in the past would simply say far more mean things about my behaviour, which yes I accept is my fault fully).
The first time I had the opinion back in 2018, I didn't even realise it wasn't a diagnosis due to it only being a 'mental health nurse'. The psychiatrists that then over ride those decisions had only ever spoken to me for 10 minutes at a time (first one), or never spoken to me and were assessing everything on the nurse's notes (second one).
So my medical history is basically full of 'Depression, GAD, PTSD, Personality Disorder etc etc etc', mostly misdiagnostics because they refuse to accept it can be autism on the basis that I have a degree and was hit as a child. I have never been offered any further help for any of these things such as therapy / counselling / Austism skills / employment stuff for over a decade while previously having relied on my family to everything for me on a day to day basis and now mostly doing nothing at all while living alone.
I'm expecting 'you can order your own food and feed yourself so 0 points' at some point in the near future.