I got the results from my aspergers assessment!

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I received the results from my Aspergers assessment.

I'm a fully-fledged aspie!.

I fit both DSM-IV and DSM-5 requirements.

^_^

Congratulations!

Congratulations !

Welcome to the official "aspie" club. I hope this knowledge works out for you.

Interesting that some people are still being diagnosed with Aspergers dispite all the "Aspergers is dead" posts.

Very glad for you.

[goes off into a corner to sulk and check e-mail again to see if local autism clinic has replied yet]

Assuming that was the answer you wanted, then congratulations.

I love how on this forum people are saying "congratulations" because we all know that having AS can be a very good thing.

Congratulations I have my first battery of tests in two weeks and I'm nervous for them. What was your assessment like?

Whys everyone congratulating him he's just found out he disabled! If I congratulated an amputee for having his leg chopped off do you think he'd like it? The answer is NO! I admit the Aspergers is what makes me me but it is seriously socially limiting and disabling.

I'm quite interested too in the diagnostic process. So how did it go?

Why can AS be a very good thing?

I actually have had my leg amputated and was glad it happened. Granted, my foot was pretty messed up before, so I was better off with a prosthetic.

I totally understand why getting an official Dx would be cause for celebration. Finally understanding why you've had problems all your life can be a huge relief.

Having one's leg amputated is the consequence of some injury or disease and leaves you disabled indeed. Even if you view AS as a disorder and nothing more (and many people here don't share that position), getting a diagnosis for AS is not the same as "getting AS". Is you have AS you have always had it. Getting the diagnosis means going through an often long and complicated process to have a better understanding of yourself. That deserves some congratulations.

I will offer congratulations. Not for being diagnosed. Rather for having completed an important step in a journey towards self-discovery and self-understanding.

You should now update your profile, accordingly.

Rocket

I had my leg amputated too and I was pretty glad about it because keeping it would have meant a lifetime of disability and I am much less disabled with an amputation than if I had kept my leg.

Regardless of that, I don't think your analogy really works.

Congratulating someone on their diagnosis is like saying, "you know something has been different about you your entire life, and now you officially know WHY"

I also felt a little weird about congratulating someone for being diagnosed with a neuro-developmental disorder but in^ that spirit, Congratulations, OP.

Indeed. Having a diagnosis really gives you awareness of your current limitations, helps you overcome your deficits, allows you to know your strengths and can give you the opportunity to vastly improve your life. Being diagnosed with a mental condition is typically a thorough, arduous process which can be costing in more ways that one. It isn't anything like forcibly having your limb amputated, based upon the fact that being diagnosed with AS isn't the same as getting AS. We've always had it, but now we're aware and can better our lives because of that fact alone.

Plus we're also a community. Because of our neurology we have similar ways of seeing the world and this can help us relate to each other. Congratulating the OP on receiving an official diagnosis sounds a lot nicer than saying "Well, it now looks like you'll now have to live a life of social confusion and inadequacy. Sorry about that." Besides some of us prefer to see Asperger's as difference rather than a disease.

Thank you, everyone whom has congratulated me.
- cue acceptance speech here-
Hahaha!
^_^

I will reply to some of your comments now.

Firstly, I am female.

Secondly, this isn't a celebration because I'm disabled, It's a celebration because I now know WHY i am the way I am.
I now know that I'm not alone, (I have never felt lonely, but I have felt alone) that there are other people just like me. Granted, I won't ever (or at least it it highly unlikely) that I will ever encounter a carbon copy of myself, but I will now be able to find people whom do indeed think like me and whom I can relate to.

Having Aspergers isn't my defining point.
It won't start to define who I am or what I do.
Fitting into the diagnostic box of "Aspergers" won't suddenly make me more aspie.
It will, however, give me more of an understanding, an insight, into why I act the way I do and how to over-come my difficulties so I can function in the world.



My tests were quite simple, filing out forms, giving reasons for why I do what I do, divulging a lot of personal information (that doesn't bother me, I don't seem to have the line as to what should be private and what shouldn't! ) and trying to explain my point of view and how I work to the specialist in question.

For me, I received an IQ test, (82nd Percentile = 70 percentile verbal comprehension, 80-90 percentile patten recognition and problem solving ability) RAADS test, depression and anxiety test (those two, I requested out of curiosity, apparently I scored quite high on both of them, hooray for Alexithymia? -sarcasm- ) and I did have to answer a lot of questions based around my behavior, childhood, perceptions and why I do things.

Oh, and during this, apparently the specialist was looking for those darstedly non verbal cues (NVC) that everyone seems to go on about. Apparently, my body language is incorrect, my gestures are ridged and my facial expressions are quite incorrect.

I was quite fortunate I had a lovely specialist whom studied under Tony Attwood and had dealt with both children on the spectrum and adults.

I hope your test goes smoothly! :3



Refer to what I said above. :3

AS can indeed be a good thing, if you are thinking about the positives, but I do have to agree with the fact that it is quite a debilitating condition, not only for the person whom does indeed have AS, but also for those whom the individual lives with.

Providing you can channel your obsessions and skills into something constructive, it can be a good thing, if not, it can be a bad thing. I believe this applies to many situations and disabilities.



I understand exactly what you are saying, that is why there are specialists whom look for things that an internet test cannot. I have encountered over 3000 humans, 25 of which insisted they had a disability which they read about before hand on Google. Why would they want a disability? I do not know. I have seen people use the concept of a disability time and time again as an excuse and to gain extra favor in the eyes of his peers. A lot of people will be willing to let things "slide" providing they know you have a difficulty.

I appreciate your congratulatory response.
I do plan on researching Aspergers quite thoroughly now that the diagnosis process is over (I really wanted to before hand, but I believed if I had researched it extensively it would interfere with the diagnostic process, which my specialist agreed upon) and eventually, I might become an assessor myself.




Seconded.

**REASONS FOR EDIT**
I changed the word "love" to "lovely" in regards to my specialist.
Why on earth a love specialist would be diagnosing me, I have no idea! hahahaha.

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