Got diagnosed at 33 after struggling all my life & living isolated. Decided I have to do something about this as no one else will so here's how it went for me:
Got a GP appointment, explained a bunch of details as to why I think I have high functioning autism or something, explained about parents meeting in a psyche ward, socially phobic father & a mother that has the telltale signs of Diogenes syndrome, bullying at school etc...am told Autism isn't genetic (JFL), told he'll contact some outlet in the locality.
2 weeks later I get some vague phone call from a weird sounding fucker that doesn't explain who he is or anything really, thought it was a prank call or scam (get a bunch of those), hang up, check voicemail (wasn't set up at the time), there's a message from a different person talking about our appointment somewhere (news to me) tomorrow.
Check the address & it's some mental health clinic 2 hour drive away (England), contact the phone number listed for the address the following day & say what happened with the mix up, she has no record of anyone contacting me, asks for an address then once I give it am told I don't qualify for their help as I'm outside the catchment area (wrong county), contact GP once again & explain what happened. Get a letter back after told I've been declined for an NHS assessment (2 year waiting list anyway) as there is a lack of medical records for me regarding autism (no shit, parents didn't give a fuck & I dropped outta school), no one intervened, Autism wasn't really getting any awareness over here until early 00's.
Figured fuck it, checked for registered assessor's in my area, found a private one, paid £600, filled in 2 questionnaire's, did an Autism spectrum quotient (scoring 46/50) , sister & father filled in a questionnaire, had an in person interview solo & a part with father present. A 2 hour discussion later & I'm diagnosed as Asperger's, the psychologist was shocked no one picked up on it or intervened at any point in my life, slipped through the net. Guess that's what happens when you have mentally ill parent's that teach you to fear everything, what's normal? Lack of extended family, no guests, living in an impoverished area with lack of options and incompetent teachers.
As for neetbux, fuck knows how you claim for that here, probably gotta be a tard autist, get diagnosed young or be wealthy & pay a private doctor with connections to get it? Once my father dies it'll be homelessness, suicide or getting a job driving a van or something as quite frankly after 2 decades of isolation I can't stand being around ppl so for a job it needs to be something mostly spent in solitude that's linear. If you're not savant, spastic level that will be looked after or receive intervention early on to learn to be "normalized" it's fucking over. NT ppl will never meet us halfway, we're expected to adhere to their reality when we're simply wired not to.
Wish I lived in Australia, America or Holland with this condition as those places at least seem to have different options set up to deal with this, UK is fucking backwards with this shit, the average gp knows nothing about it let alone the public.
There's a reason the suicide rate of high functioning Autists is 10x that of the general population, males on the spectrum have a 9/10 virginity rate & unemployment stands around 78-82%.