fake diagnosis?

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Hi, I wanted to know how difficult it would be to obtain a fake Asperger's diagnosis from a certified psychologist? Let's say you memorize everything you need to know about the diagnosis and simply act out the way the text book describes it?

And you then used that information in order to get benefits from the state? financial benefits for instance...

I think you should set your sights a little lower and shoot for an Academy Award instead. It would be easier.

I agree with the previous poster. If you are unable to work, perhaps there is a diagnosable reason and trying to fake AS will destroy your credibility and make getting benefits harder.

Are you having trouble finding or keeping employment?

It would probably be extremely difficult. That being said, even if it were possible, the diagnosis wouldn't automatically qualify someone for disability benefits. Even if someone got a phony diagnosis and could convince the state that they should be given disability benefits because of it, that would be the most long, complicated and absurd route to take when faking something such as a back injury would be much simpler and more likely to work. All things considered, if someone is willing to put so in much work and go to such extremes to scam money out of the welfare system, they may as well get a job as it pays more than benefits.

Please tell me before I jump to conclusions about you. In what context is this even a remotely ok thing to be considering?

I would like to think that a fully qualified professional who specialises in autism would recognise someone with aspergers from someone who is merely faking a set of symptoms.

A set of symptoms (that can be easily faked) do not equate to a proper and valid diagnosis in my humble opinion.

I hope you're not thinking about doing this.

My ex seemed to be a stereotype way of it and I never met an aspie like him so it is possible he was faking it since he was a narcissist and I read some do fake illnesses. It's like Munchhausen except they are doing it to manipulate, not to gain attention and sympathy. They do it to hide their abuse. And very few aspies score close to 200 on the RDOS test, many of them do not score that high. I don't see any them scoring above 195. Plus his symptoms he had seemed to be like you would find in a child with it, not an adult.

I hope if you do attempt it, you are caught and face serious consequences.

Because of the people who do this there are lot people who think most people describing themselves as Autistic are faking it and cheating them out of money they worked hard to obtain. Consistantly bieng suspected of bieng a faker has serious consequences for people who are not faking thier autism.

Why do you want to do this?

To me, its pretty f*****g despicable thing to do.

Why dont you just pretend to be completely ret*d? or act completely autistic, its just as ridiculous.

Walk into a psychologists office, flapp your hands, walk on your toes and scream "im autistic!"

Seriously, if your not disabled, dont f*****g pretend to be. there are people out there who actually are autistic and get by without 'benifits' if thats what your looking for.

Get a job.

I think a really intelligent person, who was very observant, and a very good actor, and able to obtain all the information about the tests wanted to do this, he or she could do it. However, a really intelligent, observant person who could act that well and was that determined would be much better off actually using those talents to get a real job.

Otherwise, I think it would be difficult to fake. There are an awful lot of things that they use to test a person. Many of those things are really not obvious. And the information is not all available online. And these are trained psychologists. I suppose a stupid one would be easier to fool.

I personally could not fool someone into thinking I had an ASD if I didn't have one. And I wouldn't want a fake diagnosis anyway.

This seems like a troll thread to me.

Why on Earth would anybody want to fake anything at all? Wow! I must agree, I believe this is a troll thread also. Plus, I highly doubt you would really want to fake all the confusion and feeling weird and out of place and all that other stuff that comes along with being different. If that is what you want, then you have no idea. I would suggest getting a degree and getting a job and moving on with life instead of trolling people and being silly about stuff. Cheers!

Just try different people until you get labelled. Everyone has some autistic traits. Just exaggerate the traits you do have and downplay your NT traits. That's how my parents got me diagnosed and on disability.

I agree this is either trolling, or someone with no moral compass whatsoever who thinks it's okay to do -- or attempt to do -- such a thing.

That person needs to be advised that plenty of adult diagnosed autistics still don't even qualify for ANY help, welfare, benefits, etc, --- hell, there are poorly functioning legitimately diagnosed people who are getting turned away from help, and high functioning very often get nothing at all. So even if you got your fake diagnosis there is no guarantee it would do fck-all for you except just be a piece of paper in your file drawer that NOBODY is interested in, not welfare, not anyone.

Not to mention, even a legitimate diagnosis of a genuinely autistic but functioning adult is often hard to get because under-diagnosis of real cases in adulthood is rampant. Even if you really are on the spectrum you can get diagnosed as "not."

If you think you're clever enough to fool your way into a diagnosis, then you're clever enough to get a job.

If you can't hold a job for other reasons, try to get to the bottom of those REAL reasons.

Makes me, someone who was fully diagnosed at age 2, wonder just how many hfa people are fakes....and why fake it in the first place? Being on disability/welfare sucks.

I could qualify for disability for physical health reasons and I choose not to. I want to work if I possibly can, even if it's difficult. It would be embarrassing to be on welfare, also. I would only do it if absolutely necessary. Having a job and being independent means not having to rely on others and having control over one's own life.

I don't think a whole lot of people are out there faking ASD, if this is what the OP is trying to imply. Almost nobody wants to be labeled as autistic. It's much simpler to fake something like fibromyalgia, which can't be medically tested for, than it is to fake ASD. And fibromyalgia lacks the stigma that ASD carries.