Is that how it usually goes?

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SO i went to see a psychiatrist for the first to confirm if i had Aspergers or not we talked for abou an hour.

He asked me questions about my childhood,family,friends etc. Anyway after that one hour he said that i deffinatly had Aspergers. So my question to people is if thats how long it usually takes to get a diagnosis i did do the whole waiting game with waiting to see a psychiatrist after i had spoken to my GP but i thought i would have to wait some more weeks or go to more seasions in order for it to be confirmed.

Well my psychiatrist played games of chess and checkers with me. Didn't really talk to me a lot. (I was young at the time) I don't know whatever came of that.

Later I was sent to another psychiatrist after I threw a broomstick at someone's head (I still think he had it coming) and he talked to me. I was older then, but all I remember is tearing open my skin with my nails in my pocket (it's a bit of stim when I'm irritated or nervous) and nodding and mumbling "uh-huh". I'm not sure which of the two diagnosed me, because I didn't hear of the diagnosis until two years later.

That could be normal depending on how good they are.

My assessment was 1 hour of quizzes and 1 hour of chatting, with a psychologists who specialises in ASDs, and said I was without a doubt aspie by the end of the day. I needed to wait like 7 months for that after my GP referral. Was a good experience though, I enjoyed that day

I am also aware on these forums you see stories on here of people going from place A to place B to place C and spending $3000, and have also written up a 20 page life story to give to places A B and C on their journey, and still don't have a word on it.

Anyway congrats

Mine took a few meetings with me and family as far as I can remember.

It took me years, but I'm a woman, so who knows.

I have a theory that it takes longer for women.

I have not sought a diagnosis, but my 11 year old son was diagnosed with AS at the age of 6.5. I remember we had to fill out a lot of quesionnaires. Then we (the parents) met with the developmental pediatrician for about an hour or so, and then she met with my son for an hour or two (two separate sessions for him, if I remember correctly.) Only after all that did she give a diagnosis. I remember four separate sessions, because it cost a total of $800 at $200/hr.

Maybe you just have some telltale signs. Did you flap your hands and recite train timetables, while looking at the doctor's elbow? Ha ha.


I think sometimes people take ages to get diagnosed because they go in to see the specialist, and as soon as they make appropriate eye-contact or understand an idiom, the "specialist" automatically rules out AS.

I was diagnosed after one meeting that went on for about, I think, two hours. I was told I would be completing a questionnaire at some point during the appointment, but I was never given one.

My diagnostic process went pretty much as yours did jebi.

Mine took over 4 months. I had been seeing my psychologist for a few months so she had been taking notes, so when I wanted to get tested for AS she looked back at the notes, had a few more sessions with me and focused on the AS more and talked to my mum about my background.
And that was how I was diagnosed.

This was very similiar to my assessment, which lasted two hours.

The psychologist who diagnosed me is a specialist on autism in both children and adults. I had also taken him some notes to read that I thought might be helpful, of any past or recent incidents where it had seemed to me that I was either having difficulties where other people were apparently not, where things had been confusing to me, or where it had just seemed that I had gone about things in a very different way than others.

I was quite surprised (and a little depressed) that he diagnosed me not only on my habits and ways of thinking, but on my appearance. I had always felt that I presented normally as far as this was concerned, and did not show many of the 'outward' Aspie traits, but he wrote in his report that I alternated between no facial expressions and unusual expressions, and between a very flat voice and an odd pitch.

For me it was a couple of appointments.
Two of them were just talk, one was filling out a load of questionnaires and my parents went there once.
Like a week or two later they told me it was autism.

It took me years... and I still get people (unqualified people... as in people who only want to medicate me for depression because they don't understand that me crying doesn't automatically make me depressed) telling me I'm not.

I don't understand why. Is it because I'm a woman? Because I was dxed as an adult? What? What's the deal?

went to psychiatrist, got a diagnosis of anxiety disorders, depression, selective mutism... basically things that make up AS but not AS itself.

got a school diagnosis very quickly with just her observing me and a few tests. Not sure if that's official or not, but it works for school.

I was diagnosed when I was 19 (=> adult, just) and I am female

Maybe some of you aren't as severe