Jordan
Technology Advocate
Just received my diagnosis in the post today, and what a pleasure it was to find out I were different. So glad that for 18 years, all of my social behaviour has been explained, and I am so glad that I am different.
Clinical Criteria: (has to have minimum of a score of 10 to be fully diagnosed)
A Social - Required: 3 | Observed: 5
B Obsessions - Required 3 | Observed: 5
C Communication - Required: 3 | Observed: 5
D Imagination - Required: 1 | Observed: 3
Total (max 18) - Required: 10 | Observed: 18
E Prerequisites: Required: 5 | Observed: 5
Instrument scores:
Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) Score
Max = 50: 80% AS receive score 32 or more - Scored: 18
Empathy Quotient (EQ) Score
Max = 80: 80% AS receive score 30 or less - Scored: 25
Relatives Questionnaire (RQ) Score
Max = 31: 87.8 of children with AS scored 15 or more - Scored: 31
Diagnosis: Aspergers Syndrome
They wrote some fair points (I guess) - Some of it was off the scale though (some hateful comments on there) as I am quite high on the AS spectrum. But I am so happy that this is an explanation of who I am and I can receive support for it. But I am actually upset that yet again, someone has failed someone with AS, and haven't even diagnosed me until now (aged 18). Took them 18 bloody years!
I am so glad that I am not a NT, it would make me see the world differently than I do now, and I don't like that, I like who I am and it's what makes me, me, and what it makes me "wired up differently"!
It's still hard to get my head around the diagnosis (meltdown), but at least it's a thing to explain the way I act towards people and the traits I show.
Clinical Criteria: (has to have minimum of a score of 10 to be fully diagnosed)
A Social - Required: 3 | Observed: 5
B Obsessions - Required 3 | Observed: 5
C Communication - Required: 3 | Observed: 5
D Imagination - Required: 1 | Observed: 3
Total (max 18) - Required: 10 | Observed: 18
E Prerequisites: Required: 5 | Observed: 5
Instrument scores:
Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) Score
Max = 50: 80% AS receive score 32 or more - Scored: 18
Empathy Quotient (EQ) Score
Max = 80: 80% AS receive score 30 or less - Scored: 25
Relatives Questionnaire (RQ) Score
Max = 31: 87.8 of children with AS scored 15 or more - Scored: 31
Diagnosis: Aspergers Syndrome
They wrote some fair points (I guess) - Some of it was off the scale though (some hateful comments on there) as I am quite high on the AS spectrum. But I am so happy that this is an explanation of who I am and I can receive support for it. But I am actually upset that yet again, someone has failed someone with AS, and haven't even diagnosed me until now (aged 18). Took them 18 bloody years!
I am so glad that I am not a NT, it would make me see the world differently than I do now, and I don't like that, I like who I am and it's what makes me, me, and what it makes me "wired up differently"!
It's still hard to get my head around the diagnosis (meltdown), but at least it's a thing to explain the way I act towards people and the traits I show.
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