Question if you can have ASD without restricted interests
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My brother has ASD but he's never had restricted interests, even when he was a child.
I didn't have any restricted interests until I was 11, and even then my restricted interests were about certain people, not objects or facts or anything like that.
Now I don't have any restricted interests. I have casual interests, but after having experienced "special/restricted interests" or "obsessions", I can differentiate what a casual interest is compared to a restricted interest (obsession).
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FranzOren wrote:
Can you have ASD without a history of restricted interests?
For example, you can just have repetitive behaviors or sensory issues that caused you great distress from early childhood to adulthood.
My brother has ASD and he doesn't seem to have a special interest. I don't see why not however it's also possible that your restricted interests are presenting themselves in ways you aren't recognizing.
For example, you can just have repetitive behaviors or sensory issues that caused you great distress from early childhood to adulthood.
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https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html
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B: Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at least two of the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive; see text):
1. Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech (e.g., simple motor stereotypes, lining up toys or flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases).
2. Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal behavior (e.g., extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions, rigid thinking patterns, greeting rituals, need to take same route or eat same food every day).
3. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g., strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interests).
4. Hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment (e.g. apparent indifference to pain/temperature, adverse response to specific sounds or textures, excessive smelling or touching of objects, visual fascination with lights or movement).
1. Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech (e.g., simple motor stereotypes, lining up toys or flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases).
2. Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal behavior (e.g., extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions, rigid thinking patterns, greeting rituals, need to take same route or eat same food every day).
3. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g., strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interests).
4. Hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment (e.g. apparent indifference to pain/temperature, adverse response to specific sounds or textures, excessive smelling or touching of objects, visual fascination with lights or movement).
Doesn't seem like it just as long as you meet at least two in this part of the criteria.
I have not had any string interests in a while unless my game counts.
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Son: Diagnosed w/anxiety and ADHD. Also academic delayed and ASD lv 1.
Daughter: NT, no diagnoses. Possibly OCD. Is very private about herself.
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