My language skills are "too good" for ASD?

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I got my evaluation results today, and apparently I *would* have an ASD diagnosis but he deemed my language skills "too good". I thought many on the spectrum had fantastic language skills. He also mentioned that since I had no delays in childhood, that I don't fit. (I walked and talked early.) I was a self-taught reader, too.

I went through a lot to get the evaluation, so I feel like my time and a ton of money was wasted, and I am more confused than before. I wanted some answers. Do these things really rule me out?

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You've been evaluated by an ignoramus. I suggest you point him towards the works of John Elder Robison and Kamran Nazeer for starters.

I think he is wrong. People with ASD can definitely have great language skills. And they don't have to have delays, either--in fact, a speech delay disqualified you from having Asperger's back when that was still a diagnosis.

How weird, I thought the whole point in Asperger's is there is no language delay. That means no problems with language. And since AS is part of the ASD, you still shouldn't have been disqualified from the ASD diagnoses.

From the DSM 5 criteria

That does not sound right. I understand your frustrations. I am currently still seeking a diagnosis. The last guy I went to told me that I didn't quite fit the diagnosis because I'm married and have empathy. It's tough.

He sounds like a total IDIOT----I've had TOO MANY doctors, like that!! Go to DSM website (if you're American), copy / paste / print the diagnostic criteria, then take it to him and ask him (or her) if HE can read!! Another really cool thing people have done, is to get Tony Attwood's book: "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome", and made a list of the symptoms they have, and take THAT to the doctor.

IIRC, most of us on here could read really early (myself included), and Asperger's has always been separated from Autism, because of it NOT having speech delay. It's about COGNITIVE / SOCIAL problems, for Heaven's Sakes!!

What Campin' Cat said ...

I for one am multilingual.

I was an early talker and I was always dealing fine with grammar and vocabulary, my language skills were better than most kids my age(in preschool I disputed with the teacher about "adult matters" instead of playing with my peers). I was also really interested in idioms so I understood them even better than some NT kids. And right now I am pretty much bilingual because I become skilled in using English too - on a level much higher than most Polish people I met.

And I have Asperger syndrome diagnosis - so absence of language skills delay has nothing to do with it.

Maybe the doctor just needs some glasses that allow him to see the rest of the spectrum.

Unfortunately, you ran into a doctor who has not read even the DSM IV.

His thoughts are pre-Asperger's (publicly known). Pre 1994.

I have an extremely high verbal IQ and I also have ASD. Whoever assessed you clearly was not well acquainted with ASD. A high verbal IQ means nothing when it comes to interaction with other people. Persons with ASD fail to understand the nuances of conversation with others which makes communicating difficult no matter how high the verbal IQ.

Here's ANOTHER idea..... Copy, paste, and print this THREAD!!

If he's like so many of the doctors I'VE had, he'll probably be like: "But none of these people have a degree, and *I* DO". You tell him *I* said: "Life ain't IN a book----and, if all books were all facts, all-the-time, man would not have had to invent the term 'Revised Edition'! !"

The doctor is ignorant. Languages are one of my strongest skills, and I'm pretty sure its because of the way my HFA brain learns things and commits rules and patterns to memory.

There are many aspies in the sciences, of course, and I'm sure a lot of them are significantly published academic authors.

One word.

Hyperlexia.

Loads of HFA spectrum people are hyperlexic.