Hi everyone! It’s my first post here, so glad to meet everyone! Sorry for my first post to be a novel, but it’s a slightly sticky and pretty weird situation. I appreciate anyone taking the time to read!
So, I’m in a somewhat weird situation with my mental health records. I took some meds I know are associated with ADHD from ages 6-12 or 11. I turn 27 in September so I’m a little hazy on the details. Anyhow, I have some weight to lose so I’m trying to get my ducks in a row for all that stuff so I can be ready to go when I hit the magic number. Here’s where things get interesting.
I didn’t even remember where I went for my psychiatry appointments so I had to ask my mom. She told me where, and said she believes I “have” aspergers syndrome. I called the hospital and it turns out the records are destroyed and they don’t even have a record of me even being a patient there.
So, I did my homework and found some hints that aspergers is sometimes waiverable after consulting with a DoD behavioral health consultant. Nothing solid, and there’s a fair amount of naysayers. BUT, and this is a big but, I took an online AQ test, which is often used to screen for autism, and my scores were even less autistic than your standard neurotypical. PLUS, my work history has been mostly in retail. I haven’t been on any medication of any sort for any reason or received psychiatric care since I was 12, never needed any accomodations at school, etc. Plus, Aspergers has been rolled into Autism Spectrum Disorder as of 2013 and no longer exists. Technically existing diagnoses are supposed to be grandfathered in, but I never went to a doctor to do that.
So, is there a case to be made to the waiver authority that since there’s no proof of me having anything, that I could just get a waiver for, say, ADHD? I considered not mentioning the Aspergers part to MEPS for like a minute before deciding my worst nightmare is I go to OCS and while I’m there the clearance investigators work their black magic and dig something up that only they could find, then felony charges, DD, etc.
From conversations with some friends who went into psychology and psychiatry, they were surprised when I mentioned it. I don’t think it would be hard to find a psychiatrist who would officially declare me “not autistic” and I might even go big or go home and just go to the office where my old psychiatrist used to work (now she’s gone without a trace) and get them to do it. BUT I don’t know the system well enough to know if that would be overplaying my hand when I could just scoot under the radar with no records of any sort.
So, please and thank you! Any help is appreciated!
So, I’m in a somewhat weird situation with my mental health records. I took some meds I know are associated with ADHD from ages 6-12 or 11. I turn 27 in September so I’m a little hazy on the details. Anyhow, I have some weight to lose so I’m trying to get my ducks in a row for all that stuff so I can be ready to go when I hit the magic number. Here’s where things get interesting.
I didn’t even remember where I went for my psychiatry appointments so I had to ask my mom. She told me where, and said she believes I “have” aspergers syndrome. I called the hospital and it turns out the records are destroyed and they don’t even have a record of me even being a patient there.
So, I did my homework and found some hints that aspergers is sometimes waiverable after consulting with a DoD behavioral health consultant. Nothing solid, and there’s a fair amount of naysayers. BUT, and this is a big but, I took an online AQ test, which is often used to screen for autism, and my scores were even less autistic than your standard neurotypical. PLUS, my work history has been mostly in retail. I haven’t been on any medication of any sort for any reason or received psychiatric care since I was 12, never needed any accomodations at school, etc. Plus, Aspergers has been rolled into Autism Spectrum Disorder as of 2013 and no longer exists. Technically existing diagnoses are supposed to be grandfathered in, but I never went to a doctor to do that.
So, is there a case to be made to the waiver authority that since there’s no proof of me having anything, that I could just get a waiver for, say, ADHD? I considered not mentioning the Aspergers part to MEPS for like a minute before deciding my worst nightmare is I go to OCS and while I’m there the clearance investigators work their black magic and dig something up that only they could find, then felony charges, DD, etc.
From conversations with some friends who went into psychology and psychiatry, they were surprised when I mentioned it. I don’t think it would be hard to find a psychiatrist who would officially declare me “not autistic” and I might even go big or go home and just go to the office where my old psychiatrist used to work (now she’s gone without a trace) and get them to do it. BUT I don’t know the system well enough to know if that would be overplaying my hand when I could just scoot under the radar with no records of any sort.
So, please and thank you! Any help is appreciated!