aspergers traits diagnosis

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I suffer from dyspraxia,

I had a non-standard diagnosis of "aspergers traits", after having a 10 minute chat. I now know that mean "borderline asperger syndrome".

Has anyone else had a diagnosis of "aspergers traits" / "borderline asperger syndrome" , especially dyspraxics , out there ?

I suffer from dyspraxia, quite badly.

My therapist has told me I have definite Asperger's traits, but I'm still seeing him and have no official diagnosis yet.

10 minutes chat?

It wasn't a diagnosis then. It was a fast screening. Noone can diagnose you within 10 minutes!
"You have Asperger traits." in that case means: "I can't say for sure but you seem to have some traits that could mean you have Asperger but it could be something else or just nothing at all".

If you want to go for a diagnosis you are free to pursue it and treat he therapist words as a first step in diagnostic process.

It might help to take the Aspie-Quiz and/or the AQ test and see whether your scores agree with the opinion of this person you had a chat with. Though I don't know if dyspraxia would cloud the issue. Its symptoms seem to overlap with autism, though I think autism has a much wider range of symptoms / traits, so hopefully an autism test would still have a fair amount of validity in you case.

My Autism Spectrum Quotient score is 25, I have always loved mixing with people. My mother said that I have never haqd problems socially. I have done the ADOS test several times, it shows I am near the borderline. I am not a great communicator, I have slightly weaknesses in social imagination.


However, I suffer from dyspraxia, quite badly.

My diagnosis in 2004, said I have an Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

My Autistic Spectrum Quotient score of 25 seems to agree with the non-standard diagnosis.

See,

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/fordyce-maxwell-it-seems-i-am-borderline-asperger-s-1-2807203

Looks like your non-standard ASD diagnosis could well be correct then, and that you're a borderline Aspie. I don't know much about dyspraxia yet, as I didn't know of its existence until I read your first post, but it seems I have a lot of its traits - poor working memory, good long-term memory, clumsiness, difficulty telling left from right, difficulty organising my time, always misplacing things, need for routine, sensory overload problems - and I always put those things down to ASD. So I'm rather stumped. I'm almost tempted to get tested for dyspraxia for myself.