I put my plan into practice on St Valentine's Day, Monday, 14th February 2000. I went to the Doctor's and spoke of what had happened two weeks before. I made an appointment with a female GP, who I was, I am, and will forever be, very grateful towards. This GP has done a lot for me since I was diagnosed and had this individual not acted with such commendable speed, I may never have been diagnosed, and as a result, this website wouldn't have been in existence. She retired at Easter 2013. I hope that she is enjoying her retirement.
My mum stated that she wanted me to see Digby Tantam or Lorna Wing, as I did, as they were the best in the country.
On the evening of Thursday, 2nd March 2000, I received a reply from either him or someone who works for him. It read... "I am in no position to say whether you have Asperger's Syndrome or not but it is closer to it than anything else I have heard of, as it would explain the list of unusual behaviour and skills that you described in your email".
My next move was to become a member of the NAS. I did this on Friday, 10th March 2000. I am still a member to this very day. As the weeks passed, I busied myself with the diagnosis procedure. On Wednesday, 22nd March 2000 my Dad's younger brother suddenly collapsed and died on his landing, whilst alone, of a massive heart attack, which was a huge blow to everybody. His funeral was held a week later, and on the evening of Thursday, 30th March 2000, the day after my dad's younger brother's funeral, I wrote a 12 page history of my behavioural habits starting from birth, so I would know what to say when I was getting diagnosed. I didn't want to say everything from memory and come out afterwards and think to myself "Why didn't I say that?".
The Psychiatrist said he wasn't in a concrete position to say whether I had got Asperger's Syndrome or not but stated he had never come across behavioural habits and problems that matched mine in all his years spent in the mental health profession. He stated outright that I don't appear to have any form of mental illness which people have been admitted and detained in psychiatric wards for.
