celtic1985 wrote:
No testing, and no questions from the manual. I listed all the reasons I thought I was aspie and she told me that there were other aspies at the University she had met and she was confident I wasn't like them...
If you think you have it, and want to know for sure, I'd forget GPs etc. and go directly to someone who specialises in ASDs. I've read countless posts on various message boards over the years by people reporting how they were fobbed off by GPs and therapists, only to finally get to see someone who knew about AS and then to get the diagnosis. Ask that JJ bloke, he's been posting about this sort of thing recently, and could probably give you current details about who to contact.
As for your doctor stating you're not "like" the others she's met, that doesn't seem a very credible thing to be saying (though I don't know the exact context, so can't be sure). I've met a number of AS people over the last few years, and know some reasonably well. They are all different, and though it's easy to put them into categories based on personality, some of those categories seem almost opposites to each other. Of course, there are common features that you'd recognise after spending some time with someone, or that a specialist could probably recognise, but I don't think it would be fair for your GP to discount the possibility you have AS on the grounds you've reported she has.
On the other hand, you may not have it, or have impairments that are below the threshold for an AS diagnosis, but in the latter case that still means you're on the spectrum, as it were, and it would still be useful to know.
19 Dec 2006, 7:55 pm
