AQ Score, Suspected Autism or Crystal Child?

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Hi Everyone,
I'm new here, I'm Rose, I'm 25 year old female with suspected high functioning autism?
I want to mention here I am also a mother to a 5 year old boy, and have been struggling with family relationships due to my unorthodox way of thinking.

So I did an AQ test, and these are the results of the test below... What is the next step for me do you think? How far should I take this? I am very very spiritual and i think that everything has a meaning. I really am very anti doctors, i refuse to take pharmaceutics drugs. I am really started to struggle with social situations, it seems... the more i accept myself and behave naturally, the more isolated i become from society. I quite simply cannot hold a conversation at all, it always ends awkwardly and i struggle to bond and make friends. I dont understand how i can change. this is just me, i dont do small talk, i do Deep philosophical conversations. People comment I am too intense, my voice is monotone, too sensitive. I could quite happily wear the same clothes for days, and sleep in them too, i dont ave much of an ego, much sense of self image. BASICALLY people cannot put me in a box, and they dont like that, that seems to scare them. I dont see this as a learning difficulty, I think the mass majority are weird, not me.... am i in denial about being aspies?

I could go to the docor but i hate going to them, in the uk they are quite bad at testing people , and the seem to only offer drugs for things.
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Your Aspie score: 148 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 57 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
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feel lost, need advice.

Lots of Love,
Rose x

I hate going to the doctor too and I am in the UK. If they "only offer drugs for things" you need a new GP! My current GP referred me to a consultant about the same issue within 5 minutes of asking. Doctors here aren't all bad, I promise, although I will happily admit that for many NHS doctors looking after the patients as well as possible seems to be FAR from their minds. Also, there are no drugs which can treat autism - the only time they might ever try to prescribe you a drug is if you have some kind of co-morbid problem e.g. anxiety or depression like me. Even then they will not insist you take the drugs - I wouldn't take any anti-depressants for several years despite the doctor wanting me to because I had similar but not quite as extreme feelings about the situation as you. I finally asked for them myself because I was that desperate to find something to make my depression and anxiety feel better.

edit: So, in short, I think you *should* go to the doctor. You may have autism but you may also have something which CAN be treated with therapy. Even if you do have autism then therapy could help you learn to cope with some situations better.

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Hi & welcome to WP.
I think you will be able to pick up quite a bit of information here that will be useful to you, like what Invisablesilent wrote above. It sounds to me, from just the little you wrote, that lacking information you have come up with some conclusions that may need re-evaluating. I guess the best advice I can think of at this point is to have an open mind.

Welkome to WP

Mick