What determines if you recieve official diagnosis? Scores on aq and rdos.

[hoeffelt]

Seems like I am like right on the edge of aspie and NT. I recall someone telling me that you will not be given an official diagnosis unless it severly affects your day to day life and how well you function daily, regardless of how many traits you have. Anyone else have similar scores and still recieved an official diagnosis? It affects my life through depression, anxiety, social issues (cant socialize unless 1on1, cant keep conversations flowing, etc...), ability to make friends, and needing time alone to kind of like recharge. Im still trying to figure out if i should get an official diagnosis eventually.

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 117 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 122 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits

Your AQ Test Score is: ranges from 29-32
The official criteria for Asperger’s Syndrome is an AQ score greater than 32.

According to statistical analysis, 26 – 31 Is a borderline score.

86% of people with a score of 26-31 can be correctly classified as having Asperger’s Syndrome.

 

[unsurewhattoname]

I never did the weird green chart thing or the neurodiverse thing. On the AQ I got 43 but my diagnosis wasn't based just on that, either. I think the history and your life has more weighing in on it that the score on a 50 question thing.

So you need impairments and since childhood too and it must impair those areas and they assess you to see if it does.

 

[Beverly]

A good clinician or psychologist will take what you have learned over the years into account. Mine did and, I should have my official Dx early next week.

I've done the self tests, the scores you see in my signature reflect my instinctive, natural answers but, because of what I have learned over the years, I can answer so that the results show me almost entirely NT. That's because I know what NTs expect and, can think of how one would most likely answer, what problems they would not have, any problem I have to consciously think about and remember what I've learned to overcome basically.

I don't instinctively know what most body language means but, I have studied and memorized it so, yes I know but, it isn't something I simply picked up without a dedicated effort to learn it.

I don't understand why some things should elicit this or that emotion and, they don't in me but, I can observe those around me and, react appropriately when that is required of me, in short I have learned how to fake the outward expression of many emotions.

I don't instinctively know when to speak in a conversation but, I can count off 1.5 seconds in my head and, speak when the other person has been silent that long.

All learned work arounds and memorized things, much like learning a new written language. A good diagnosis will account for that kind of learning but, you've got to explain it all to them so they know what efforts you have made to overcome your shortcomings and, you have to tell them what you were like before you learned.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

I score similarly with the AQ, the highest I've ever gotten was 31, any more and it would be dishonest. I think I do very well with socialising, my tone of speech is generally average although I can sound robotic at time. If you didn't know what to look for then you might fool yourself into thinking I'm like a typical person. Regardless of all that though I'm still getting an official diagnosis because there are areas of my life I'd like some help and guidance with. From what I've been told when you're diagnosed it's your childhood that gets looked at the most because it's you before you learnt adapting mechanisms.

 

[unsurewhattoname]

Yeah, a good deal of my assessment was me as a baby and toddler. I think before 3 is important for multiple reasons. It needs to be shown at that age. Need to have the autistic signs as a baby and toddler.