Maybe some of you need to lower your expectations. You seem to expect an awful lot. I've been in the situation (more than once, unfortuantely) where I've actually been discriminated against. The difference being that the things that I should have had, I've actually had to fight for. I've been called a liar on more than once occassion over my medical conditions and so have the perople who diagnosed me. Ok, they do sometimes get it wrong; (something I know only too well) but when you've got 4 or 5 different specialists who have never seen your medical records saying you have the same diagnosis within a few minutes of meeting you, I know I'd rather believe them over a bloody teacher and so-called "support worker". Those specialists have never met each other and work in different departments.
I was actually told that there's no law stating they have to support me. Um, someone is clearly forgetting the Equalities Act. She then went on to tell me that my Autism is actually anxiety, it's impossible for me to have Autism because "I think my dad has it and youre nothing like him" and I just need counselling. It took 2 sessions with a psychiatrist to get a diagnosis, the GP told me within 10 minutes he thought I had it; but couldn't be too sure because of my other medical problems and my sister, who thinks I have it, at the time was doing a degree in Psychology. No-one has ever mentioned anxiety to me. The woman who told me I have anxiety also told me that I'm not visually impaired (despite being on the partially sighted register) and I'm actually Dyslexic. I don't meet the criteria for a Dyslexia diagnosis. The only criteria I meet is reading difficulties. The Educational Psychologist says that's completely normal for someone with a visual impairment.