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when you where diagnosed? Do they made a lot of tests? Did the doctor made unconfortable questions? How did they told you you were an aspie? Who told you that, a normal doctor?
A friend of mine is about to be diagnosed and my dad says i should "do the test" to because we are so alike
can you tell me how is it?

I was diagnosed two years ago. I made an appointment with a clinical psychologist because they do those sorts of assessments. I paid two twenty dollar co-pays and the insurance paid the other $460.00. I took a Rorschach test, several tests (or one huge test) where I filled in little bubbles for multiple choice answers, I took the very same test I took on line here at WP ( http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php ) only printed out. The next appointment I had to tell everything I remember from my childhood because I have no parents or people from my childhood, but I was told that at this point family members would have been also interviewed.

Then I had a time two weeks later when I came back for the diagnosis to be explained to me. As much as I already was internally convinced Asperger's Syndrome was the root of all my experiences, my psychologist did not focus on it, matter of fact he kind of dismissed it as unimportant, or some sort of secondary or tertiary issue.

Instead he focused on what I would call my 'co-morbids'; anxiety, flying off the handle, uneven emotional response, etc. I don't know why. But I have found many behavioral health providers the same way. I personally think it is because few of them know much about it.