getting diagnosed?

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when you were diagnosed with AS: (if your comfortable answering any of these)
- how long did it take?
- what happened?
- what kind of questions were asked?

any advice?

Once my referral went through it took one week until my initial meeting - one more week (maybe 9 days tops) to the eval appointment and then three weeks until the results. All in all 5-6 weeks.

I first met with the neuropsychologist and she asked me questions about my birth, childhood, schooling and why I thought I was an aspie, if I self harmed, suicidal and about my work history and did I ever want to drive a car and how many times did it take to pass my written driver test and the driving test itself. Few other life detail questions too.

At the end of that she said she strongly suspected I was aspie and would like to do the eval my GP recommended for me.

As for the aval itself it wasn't anything to stress about. Yes, I was nervous, yes I flopped many areas, and I was horrified to learn there was a math test.. but over all... not near as bad as I had been imagining in my head. There was spelling, math, spatial, and a few things I have no name for... sorry. Shape matching and drawing and visual memory tests. Auditory story recall and a few dexterity things.

So... what I am trying to say - it isn't very scary when you find a good specialist in the area of ASD's. I have read some experiences on here that makes me grateful it was as easy as it was for me. Hope you find it just as easy.

still scared to do that.. and what the doctors will say lol

I don't really remember. I was only seven at the time, back in 1969.

Know that feel....keep in mind, though, you could just walk out at any moment and never contact the doc again if you don't want to, and it's not like anyone has to know about it either.

indeed...but some words are hard to forget

Understand that. I was afraid of what they might say, but even more than that i was afraid to actually make an appointment because i always have problems with phone calls and appointment making...especially if it is something i haven't done before. But I did notice that after getting diagnosed my focus shifted from trying to figure out if I have AS to trying to figure out how to cope with difficulties. This is why I think diagnosis is important.

I agree! Since diagnosis I don't fall apart so easy anymore... I still have all my issues.. but I don't emotionally collapse anymore. Diagnosis gave me closure and the ability to move on and cope better. Also to accept myself.