Good Morning, my good, supportive friends on the
www.diabetes.co.uk type 2 life forum,
I am very happy today because I was the recipient of my diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder yesterday at the Lambeth Autism Service, a subsidiary of the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham in Kent based upon the close studies of the ATEC questionairres that my friend and care coordinator helped me complete and the telephone conversation with the psychologist from that concern and assessment by community nurse specialist at that concern. The psychiatrist who made the diagnosis, the great Dr Susannah Whitwell, said all other diagnoses that I have received over the years, personality disorder, severe behaviour disorder, psychotic disorder, mood disorder can be revoked and regarded as null and void. She is happy to refer me to an Autism Support Group where I can engage with people like myself as well as a referral to the Specialist Genetics Unit at a psychiatric hospital in South London where I can have intensive one to one psychological treatment to help identify and nullify my extreme passivity and naievity and susceptibility to being abused financially.
My blood glucose reading today at 6:04 am in the morning after I drank a cup of coffee with sweeteners and had a few roll-ups was 7.5 Millimoles Per Litre. I am sure it will come down to a good, optimum reading, however, because I administered my morning dose of metformin at 6:01 am this morning successfully.
And the incidence last Thursday was a grave autistic meltdown not a schizophrenic experience as I'd misconceptualised. The autistic specialist psychiatrist Dr Whitwell told me that.
Have a lovely day my lovely and understanding, non-judgemental friends.