So for a while now I’ve been itching to get a diagnosis (after talking to 3 different psychiatrists all saying they think I have ASD/would be aspergers). I’ve finally gone and done it. It’s less than 40 minutes after I finished and it honestly felt a bit lackluster. The first portion was a general questionair, and then some stuff about OCD, the second felt like an IQ test(block patterns, remembering/reordering numbers and letter from auditory memory, puzzle patterns, deciphering code, etc), and then the last part was about 500 T/F questions with a lot of them seemingly being pointless. There were so many that just didn’t apply to me because they were probably searching for other things like paranoia, depression or were drug/alcohol related. Plus a lot of the potentially telling ones I couldn’t answer or were written in a way that I should say yes, but technically it was no by the wording of the question(or vice versa). For example: Do you like machine magazines? I don’t know, I’ve never tried to read a magazine....
Or do you read all the article titles in a newspaper? I don’t know, I’ve never read a newspaper.... stuff like that.
Anyways I was wondering what other peoples’ experiences were like so I can compare it to mine. ASD didn’t seem to be a target at all, just a broad test. I’m kind of worried that this was a money grab and they didn’t actually do something for ASD. I’m probably going to stress until I get the results, and then maybe still. I have way too much data pointing towards ASD and I don’t know what to do if it comes back and they say I don’t.
Or do you read all the article titles in a newspaper? I don’t know, I’ve never read a newspaper.... stuff like that.
Anyways I was wondering what other peoples’ experiences were like so I can compare it to mine. ASD didn’t seem to be a target at all, just a broad test. I’m kind of worried that this was a money grab and they didn’t actually do something for ASD. I’m probably going to stress until I get the results, and then maybe still. I have way too much data pointing towards ASD and I don’t know what to do if it comes back and they say I don’t.