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fifasy wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way but I laughed when I read your initial post. I don't think a neurotypical person would put so much research into as niche a subject as Aspergers or Autism unless they work as a professor or healthcare or social work professional.
From my point of view even the fact you have studied this in so much detail is in itself an indicator of your having Aspergers. The very literal way in which you are interpreting one criterion is also a giveaway!
That shows a kind of black and white thinking style that people with Asperger's are well known for.
I think you would get diagnosed in an assessment.
From my point of view even the fact you have studied this in so much detail is in itself an indicator of your having Aspergers. The very literal way in which you are interpreting one criterion is also a giveaway!
That shows a kind of black and white thinking style that people with Asperger's are well known for.
I think you would get diagnosed in an assessment.
So, I was totally going to write a similar response. Now before you feel I'm "talking down to you" or something, I can totally do the same thing and have done so countless times. Your concerns made me literally laugh for a little while. You're basically writing yourself off as autistic because Tony gives 7 as the age when autistic traits would have to be displayed. Surely not 8 or 9 or 10, and certainly not 7 and 1 day......7...that's it!
Like the above said, you are totally being autistic in just about everything you said about how you can't be autistic. Relax, you have a home here and you belong. Whether that's a good thing or not, I'll leave up to you.
28 Jan 2018, 9:32 am
KeepOn wrote:
fluffysaurus wrote:
It's a questionnaire that the parent has to fill out, it's quite detailed but what I found during my (recent NHS) assessment is that when you are being asked a whole load of questions about childhood things come out that I hadn't previously connected to ASD, so all your dad needs to do if fill in the questionnaire as well as he can. They will then asses you based on the about 200 hundred questions that they ask you over about 3 hours that also cover a lot of your childhood (that you remember) and your behavour during your assessment. In other words it's a broad spectrum so nobody is going to have all of the signs or all the parental information. eg there were no questions about imaginary friends but there were about nightmares. A lot of things that are mentioned on the internet as typical ASD are not in the questions so try not to think about it too much, are you on a waiting list?
What kind of questions do they ask in the questionnaire?
I didn't read the parent one, sorry. I don't remember the one I filed out at the time either except, did I have dyslexia? was I sick as a child? hearing problems? And did I have IBS.
The one at the assessment was mostly about problems, did I trip over things that aren't there? did I have friends at school? was I attracted to shiny things?
I actually knew not a lot about ASD (I had never heard the term ASD) before my assessment. I knew I had big problems with how I communicated with others (or everyone else was horrible) and some people had suggested (not in a nice way) Asperger's. My research made me doubt that until I came across an article written by a female Aspie. It was as if someone wrote an article about all my weird s**t so I put in for an assessment, but I still wasn't sure, and I'm certain that she diagnosed me primarily from my behavour at the assessment. I thought I came across as completely normal, it turns out I don't
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