Woohoo! I'm aspie and proud!

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Thanks guys!

Yeah I guess I "failed" that one. I couldn't stop thinking about it! I kept going "what? Dutch horses? I don't get it"

Horses in Holland... no, that one's thrown me too . I would think an aspie and an NT would answer the same... some variation or other of the immortal words "WTF?"

She did stunningly well, and I'm incredibly proud of LadyM. I also dont think I have ever witnessed her speak so much to another live person, especially not a stranger. The psychiatrist lost me on that horse question as well, but as not all of the things he asked were oriented towards diagnosing AS, we might have missed the point on that one. Best I could guess was its like "how long is a piece of string" - a theoretically rhetorical question with no real answer. (The distance from the middle to one end, times two?)

On another note.. Im incredibly jealous. LadyM has gone from GP to Psychiatrist in under a month. Both of them were solidly professional and seemed to actually give a damn, and her examination was conducted like a proper attempt at diagnosis. A far cry from the convoluted bollox i had to go through, with a doctor who forwarded me as an OAP, and a psychiatrist who couldnt get my name right, had a chronically poor grasp of english, and seemed to be conducting an Aspie job interview (why do you deserve a diagnosis?) from some second-hand rumours about Aspergers he saw on TV the night before. And we are both registered at the same practice, under the same mental health services. Its so not fair

Macbeth,

You might be right about the question. I have always tried to qualify such things. If I, as a kid, was asked that question and "KNEW" a number, I would have said "Well, they say it is xxx horses, but that was yesterday, and who can really tell?". When I said she "failed", I was kind of kidding about what another person said. Anyway, it should be part of a diagnosis.

It could also be like the watchman in the old jok where he tried to figure out what the worker was stealing when he constantly went out with wheelbarrows. Every night, it was clear that he wasn't stealing anything. He was stealing wheelbarrows. Maybe they wanted to see her reaction, and didn't really care about the answer, etc....

As for your different experiences, she was checked later. Who knows, maybe they got their act together.

But HEY, when they checked ME out, they didn't even have any such diagnosis. It was a nice office, and he seemed like a nice guy, and he gave me a lot of tests, but I STILL think he was a quack. Maybe that is one reason I dislike the whole idea of psychologists/psychiatrists.

Steve