Who is a good candidate to fill in screening questionaire

[Nero]

I am 23 and about to finish my masters. In recent time I had a lot of issues with stress and panic attacks, and my girlfriend suggested that I contact the university health center about it. There I set up a meeting with a psychologist, where the intention was to just to go over some stress management.

But once the meeting started, and I explained some of the problems I was having, her questions started diverging more and more towards the end. When our time was up, she said that she suspected I might have ASD, and that she wanted to get me a meeting with a psychiatrist and see if I should look into it further.

When she started to explain some of the symptoms, it was like so many things suddenly started to make sense, like the puzzlepieces, of which I was not even aware that they were (potentially) all pieces of one single puzzle, fell together.

Since then, I have had the meeting with the psychiatrist and he sent me a questionnaire that I should fill in, as well as someone who has known me when I was young, and someone who knows me well now.
The issue is that apart from my family members I don't know anyone who knew me well when I was young, but I don't want to tell my parents untill the psychiatrist says that I should go to an expert for true diagnosis. So who else can I ask? What should I do?

 

[Streetwise]

from what I know it's probably the psychiatrist who will diagnose you ,part of the diagnosis is to ascertain if you are truly autistic and their view is that mean that it starts when you were two or three years old .i'm presuming you don't have an eidactic memory ! saw you need people who will probably be older than you !to tell them what you were like!
for instance your parents friends, people they worked with, your priest or rabbi or doctor .

 

[Mr Allen]

The best candidate, apart from yourself of course, would be someone who knows you intimately (not THAT intimate lol) such as your Mum or your Dad.

 

[Nero]

Ofcourse, but that is the entire problem, I don't want to tell them yet, and I don't seem too know anyone else that knows me intimately. I have moved around a lot in my life and hence never had any long term friends.

 

[Streetwise]

Ofcourse, but that is the entire problem, I don't want to tell them yet, and I don't seem too know anyone else that knows me intimately. I have moved around a lot in my life and hence never had any long term friends.

do you have any records of medical examinations from early childhood someone may have noted how you react

 

[kay]

Could you tell your parents it's just for a class project? They don't have to actually know why they are filling out the questionnaire exactly, do they?

 

[Progster]

I think that some psychiatrists - those with a lot of experience, will diagnose without input from parents, but they may want to see other evidence such as school reports, or they may talk to a teacher.

I would talk to the psychiatrist, explain the problem and ask if there is anything they can do.