John – Interview 08b  

John – Interview 08b

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 45
Background: John is single and an unemployed admin worker. Ethnic background/nationality: White mixed UK/Irish

Brief outline:After having a lot of contact with mental health services over the years, John was diagnosed with mild Asperger syndrome aged 45. Previous employment has proved problematic for John and he feels employers should be more aware of Asperger syndrome.

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John’s problems with attention have not received the support he would have liked.

 



And did this as well the diagnosis did it give you support, or she give you support for your attention problems?
 
No. Absolutely not, though. That’s the compounding thing that I’d gone there with this one thing in mind, thinking because that was to me what was creating the biggest problem, not only in employment, but I’d also tried to return to education. I tried to complete an access course and found that very difficult because of my concentration problems, access to higher education that is. And no, obviously, you know, the NHS are working within the constraints of their resources. They can only offer you so much time and you know, they’ve got perhaps some people who are more serious than others, but, you know, if they review your case on a periodic basis there’s only so much can be fitted into that interview and, things to do with my concentration were always getting pushed down the agenda and getting squeezed out. So no, no, the original problem that I’d gone there with ironically didn’t get addressed at all. No.
 

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