Can you be diagnosed without "classical" obsessions & routines?

As you can see I'm still chewing over my recent evaluation.

Where my assessor seemed to be digging a lot and struggling to find evidence was in the domain of obsessions and routines.

I do have routines, and I get stressed if anyone threatens them, but how severe is it? I don't know. No meltdowns, but I'm a lot happier if I'm left alone with my original plans - which would generally be go to work & come home at the same time each day, have pretty much the same thing for lunch, and come home to my wife and dogs *only* until the next day. Holidays from work ideally means more time at home for me - no travelling.

I do have obsessions, but they aren't for train numbers or a particular sort of aircraft, or a specific South-African toad or whatever but instead have been pretty intense hobbies that I can achieve a flow state in. They have changed over the years.

I'm worried that the DX I get in about 5 weeks will just say I'm a lonely geek with no friends.

Thoughts?

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  • Obsessions don’t have to be the classic obsessions with trains etc, they can be hobbies or other things. I never used to think that I had meltdowns either but I realised, after discussion on here, that I do, they’re just not as obvious as the classic meltdown. Everyone is different.

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  • Obsessions don’t have to be the classic obsessions with trains etc, they can be hobbies or other things. I never used to think that I had meltdowns either but I realised, after discussion on here, that I do, they’re just not as obvious as the classic meltdown. Everyone is different.

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