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serious question, anons: is it worth it for me to go get diagnosed with auditory processing disorder?

I'm pretty sure I have it, but I learned a lot of compensatory mechanisms very early on. I read insanely fast, I lipread, and when all of that fails I just nod and smile and read social cues to figure out whether I should say "yes" or "no" or be happy or angry or something. no lie, I have genuinely had a 15-minute conversation with someone in which the only things I understood them saying were "hey" and "bye."

it's been fucking with my schoolwork recently because it's impossible for me to block out background noise, and I'm in too many classes where we get told a lot of stuff verbally that's not presented in the reading.

I get by pretty well in everyday life, though, and I'm turning 21 later this year. idk I am just not sure it's worth it to fork over $2000 for this diagnosis. can any anons with similar experience weigh in?

if it's affecting you that badly in classwork, I'd say yes. Is there not any way for you to pay less than $2000, though? That's pretty steep. :(

It's mostly the recent units we've been doing, they're all personal interest topics for the professors so there's no reading to go with them. if worst comes to worst I'll just take the hit and drag my grade up later.

and I'm not sure, my school's health services tends to refer people to this one neuropsychologist for testing like that. when my friend went (for general learning disability tests, though) it ran her $2000, because health insurance doesn't consider those tests medically necessary.

ahhh. :( Maybe see if you can get a referral from your GP or something? They might have a better chance at convincing insurance it's needed.

that's true! my GP left the school a couple months ago so I've been meaning to find a new one, but this would be good to bring up at the new patient meeting. thanks :)

You university can make provisions for you, if you can provide them with the appropriate information about the issues you have. Unfortunately, 'the appropriate information' is probably going to be a doctor's diagnosis.

It wouldn't hurt to talk to someone at the university about it, as well as your professors, first though.

I'm not sure who to talk to, honestly. our mental health services suck and you need documentation (read: a diagnosis) to talk to disability services. the undergrad life office will probably just refer me to the super expensive neuropsychologist.

but you're right, at the very least I can talk to my professors, it's definitely possible they have a collection of papers they built their talks from. I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier, but thanks, anon :)

I would talk to your student health center at uni, anon, and see if they can hook you up with enough of a diagnosis to get provisions via disabled students' services.

At my uni there was a special push by health services to account for people who couldn't afford to get specialist diagnoses for their various learning disabilities, so the school itself had set up testing that would count for disabled student services.

unfortunately our health services aren't very good. I've asked the mental health department before, and their proposed solution was to send me out to the expensive neuropsych for testing. the undergrad life office did the same to my friend, who actually did go and get tested.

it's possible a referral through health services might go over better than a referral from the undergrad life office, though, as far as getting health insurance to help pay for it, so I might try that. thanks :)

oh, that sucks, anon! :( I really hope something gets worked out for you whether it's trying a referral through insurance or talking to your professors or whatever else!

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