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I suspect it's as accurate as any self-administered screener, and more so than most. For added accuracy, a good idea is to retake the assessment with the assistance of someone who is probably not autistic and knows you very well.

I hesitate to generalize from limited observation, but I have encountered many people who have either taken rdos's assessment after being professionally assessed or before, and the results have correlated very well between the two. I have noticed an absence of people reporting non-correlation between rdos's assessment and clinical assessment by suitably qualified medical professionals.
Frankly, it is my personal opinion that rdos's assessment is more reliable than the average medical professional, and possibly only second to actual clinical assessment by a suitably qualified physician.


I know from some people that dyspraxia is not recognized in some medical contexts, so this complicates the issue.

Where I live it is a recognized diagnosis, and the one child I know who has received it is most certainly 'on-spectrum'; quite why she is dyspraxic rather than AS is difficult to be clear about. There are subtle differences, for instance she is more social and more socially successful than most AS children I know (and myself at her age), and her interests although very much present now, were not present (or not noticeably so to me at any rate) when she was younger (they seemed to start up for her as she developed into a pre-teen). She also had substantial and pervasive learning difficulties that seemed more on the executive functioning/global planning side of things than the social side.
Ultimately there is a lot about the spectrum that is still unknown and much controversy/confusion over how spectrum conditions inter-relate. It might be that in some contexts, people who simply have AS but are worse in executive function than gross social skills, and who have more pervasive or obvious learning impairments are categorized as dsypraxic even though there is no real difference in etiology, or there could be very real differences in etiological pathways behind the differences used to distinguish the two. We really do not know at this time.

Oh, and welcome to the forums.

NO...WAY!

I've got Dyspraxia, and was diagnosed with AS not much longer than a month ago. So...

It's fairly strange, because I hadn't yet met anybody else on the forums with Dyspraxia, assuming it was mainly for people with AS, but yeah. Welcome to WP!

Welcome Aboard, AndyFalls!

FYI ... nobody "owns" this, or any other thread on WP except Alex.

Thanks pandd, that was really a very informative and helpful post. Thank you also to everyone else for your very welcoming... er... welcomes!

To WrongPlanet!! !

So my Community psychiatric Nurse has jumped on the Aspergers bandwagon! Very interesting, given she's a health professional... it's not a diagnosis, but the way things are going that I might get one next time I see my psychiatrist.