David Shamash

Well I was not self diagnosed. In family therapy in 1990 my father asked if I had been more strictly brought up whether I would have turned out better. The family therapist said it had nothing to do with up bringing and explained that I had Asperger Syndrome. I was not in the room and she explained it to my Parents as it was a terrible secret. My Father was a great believer in discipline and said that they over did the cane before the war but they should not have abollished the cane completely. He even got caned for talking after lights out at boarding school in the 1930s. I will never forget this conversation as he died shortly after that meeting aged eighty-five in 2006. Learning that I had Asperger Syndrome meant he stopped blaming my Mother for the way I turned out. My Doctor told me in 09 that the only record about Autism on me was the Psychiatrist in 1976 who visited us aged nineteen saying that I had mild Autism which is the equivalent of Asperger today and he did not have records about when I was nine. When I was nine in 1966 a Psychiatrist wanted to send me tc a special school for Autistic children I am pleased that I did not go there. That Psychiatrist did not explain why he thought I was Autistic. I was not happy at the private schools but I liked the Primiary School I was at from nine till eleven. More replies please on the brain scan. David Shamash.

Yes what I had over twenty years ago was not to find out if I was Autistic. One in 87 at St Georges and another one in 1989 at Wellington Hospital both paid for by the National Health. It was to find out if I was brain damaged as I fell out of a pram when I was a baby. After that I had more brain scans at the Maudsley for research to find out if Autistic people's brains are different so may be it contributed to the new brain scan. I think it could happen that a brain scan might find that someone was not Autistic although the person was behaving as though he was. I should think in the reverse that a brain scan might find a person Autistic when his behaviour was not Autistic. It is less likely as they are only likely to brain scan people who behave as though they were Autistic. David Shamash Thanks for your reply.

A new brain scan has been discovered to diagnose Autism. The computer can tell small differences in the brain so tell if someone is on the Autistic spectrum. I had brain scans in the eighties and they could not find any differences in my brain. When the brain scan is fully in use we do not know if people would count as Autistic if they behave like an Autistic person but it does not show on the machine. That might mean they would not obtain the help they need. There is information about the brain scan being discovered last year on the web so anyone can find it with a google search engine. Is the brain scan a good thing? David Shamash. I am including it in the subject of diagnoses but I do not know if it should be in a new discussion. I have nothing to do with the Norfolk Broads as I live in London. I do not know how to remover Norfolk Broads.