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Recent content by breakpoint64

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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Thank you all for your supportive responses, I will definitely take the opportunity to seek a second opinion when possible. As of right now I am still struggling with introspection due to the damage this assessment has done. One part of me is VERY confident that I’m on the spectrum and it’s...
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    Introspective: how did you accept your Autistic traits/diagnosis?

    I can’t relate to that particular experience since I have been only told by an expensive ASD psychologist that I couldn’t be autistic. It makes it harder to accept being on the spectrum because you can’t accept something you are not. Despite holding a lot of counter evidence in my memory...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    My mom was rather supportive about doing the assessment (something I should probably thank Greta Thunberg for) and I doubt that she intentionally sabotaged the assessment for me as she genuinely couldn’t remember relevant parts of my childhood and was equally upset as I was when I got the...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Thanks. I think an element that kinda makes it hard is that everything I have experienced was basically the fear of those who seeked for a diagnosis and ended up getting one. It didn’t help that I were also told by the professional that “well you already knew you don’t have it” when I said that...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Yeah, it’s more that I have been told “your experiences mean nothing on if you are on the spectrum, just because you have had this and that experience doesn’t mean you are autistic” Which my brain internalizes as “you are making everything up” That’s what makes it hard for me to accept...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Thanks, I should have made that clear in the first post that I do have ADHD, which at least reassures me that I am ND anyways, I kept looking in regards of ASD given the comorbidity and the things I have noticed in the course of my life and how people kept trying to hint potentially being on the...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    I don’t really have any behavior reports from school and I don’t think asking teachers will be helpful for anything except maybe performance with special interests vs performance in other classes (I tried getting performance testing in high school but the school psych told me I’m too old for...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    My mom told me that I have shown language delay at the age of 3 but ended up being unsure if it wasn’t actually at the age of 2. The professional reported that the language delay happening at the age of 3 means that it lacks any evidence that I am actually on the spectrum. When I responded by...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Still a distant future, and I am fully aware that trying to move the goalposts won’t help. Having been constantly hinted of not being neurotypical while constantly being told that I’m just making stuff if I question being up is what fuels this constant self-gaslighting I’m suffering from. I...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    I’m arguing from the ICD-10 because this is what is exclusively used in my country for diagnosis
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    On the one hand I scored low on like every ASD test I were apparently tested with, but then again those were questionnaires that were filled out by the professional based on my mom’s verbal answers which made me look on paper as the most neurotypical person on the planet. Which caused my...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    the professional also cited like Me passing a placement test for an university I have fought hard to get into because I had to drop out of high school due to bad performance, having “extroverted qualities” such as having been part of a stage play group in high school and my mom portraying child...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Thanks, I remember trying to challenge the professional’s conclusion but constantly dismissed it with “why didn’t your mom notice/point out when I asked her” completely dismissing the idea that I might not feel like talking much about my struggles when family is close, in the sense that I just...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    Basically I didn’t speak any words at all as an infant and had a language delay, however what was the red flag is that the very first thing time I said anything in my life was through echolalia. I have been told by my family that I were put into therapy early on as a child due to suspected...
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    Can I still be on the spectrum even though an ASD Professional told me I impossibly couldn’t?

    I don’t really know how much it will help and I think it makes more sense to contact the place I were put into therapy as a child if they have *some* documentation about my symptoms remaining the diagnosis criteria are pretty much written having a white single child in mind what just isn’t the...
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