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Who did your diagnosing clinician interview for your evaluation?
parents/guardian 29%  29%  [ 5 ]
other family member 12%  12%  [ 2 ]
friend 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
romantic partner/spouse 12%  12%  [ 2 ]
school personnel 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
co-workers 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
non-family caretaker 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
social worker 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
therapist/mental health staff 12%  12%  [ 2 ]
medical doctor 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
other 12%  12%  [ 2 ]
more than one of these 12%  12%  [ 2 ]
I was too young to remember 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 17

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30 Nov 2020, 3:07 am

If you got diagnosed without the doctor talking to someone who knows you well, I'd like to know what you think of that diagnosis. Do you question it or feel that the evaluation was incomplete or unprofessional?



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30 Nov 2020, 7:33 pm

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30 Nov 2020, 9:46 pm

I ticked "other" as none of the rest applied. The only person that was interviewed was me.



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02 Dec 2020, 6:35 am

starkid wrote:
If you got diagnosed without the doctor talking to someone who knows you well, I'd like to know what you think of that diagnosis. Do you question it or feel that the evaluation was incomplete or unprofessional?




Happy with my evaluation with only person getting interviewed being myself.



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02 Dec 2020, 9:22 am

Nobody else was interviewed, and it was a self-diagnosis, but nobody has doubted it. My mother was involved in that I was looking up her symptoms when I finally understood us both.



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02 Dec 2020, 11:46 am

The psychologist spoke with both me and my bride. On my own initiative I provided what the written report called "copious amounts of documentation and records, to include a detailed index." The psychologist gave us questions to ask my 89-year old Dad; plus the records I provided included a copy of a journal my long-deceased Mom had kept tracking my first year of life.


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(1) While I suspected I really was "different" I had no clue it was autism. The clue I finally got was when, in 2018, my then 88-year old Dad was visited by a young autistic boy (about 6 years old); family who were there told me that several times Dad said the kid was doing the same "weird" things I used to do--I still don't know what those weird things were but I must have made heck of an impression on Dad because I would've been doing them around 1960! This was the clue that lead me to get an autism assessment.

(2) Based upon Mom's journal, it appears that before 2013 my diagnosis would've been Asperger's Syndrome.

(3) I was quite satisfied with the psychologist. I can't say the same thing about my insurance provider. When I requested a referral for an adult autism assessment they gave me a number of useless referrals (people that did not do that and people not even in my area). Finally they told me  I  could find a provider but it had to be a psychologist with ABA certification. That "ABA" bit caused me a lot of trouble! It was a few months before I found out they were wrong--since I wasn't seeking treatment, ABA was irrelevant.


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02 Dec 2020, 11:52 am

I was diagnosed when I was 3. It was based on the fact that I couldn’t talk and had behaviors typical of “classic” autism.



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02 Dec 2020, 11:58 am

Double Retired wrote:
(3) I was quite satisfied with the psychologist. I can't say the same thing about my insurance provider. When I requested a referral for an adult autism assessment they gave me a number of useless referrals (people that did not do that and people not even in my area). Finally they told me  I  could find a provider but it had to be a psychologist with ABA certification. That "ABA" bit caused me a lot of trouble! It was a few months before I found out they were wrong--since I wasn't seeking treatment, ABA was irrelevant.


Is "driven crazy by my insurance company" covered?



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02 Dec 2020, 2:40 pm

Double Retired wrote:
Trivia:

Finally they told me  I  could find a provider but it had to be a psychologist with ABA certification. That "ABA" bit caused me a lot of trouble! It was a few months before I found out they were wrong--since I wasn't seeking treatment, ABA was irrelevant.

I do not find this trivial. This speaks volumes


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04 Dec 2020, 5:30 pm

A specialist diagnosed me with AS when I was 13.


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