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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  • Thanks for the replies everyone! Yes I was on the same page as all of you, but I just got the impression that my interviewer was looking for something more classical (if not stereotypical?). 

    You've put my mind at rest a bit............I'm still chewing my knuckles though waiting for the letter!

    On the subject of knuckles this reminds me I'm pretty sure I was also stimming in the interview (rubbing knuckles together, rubbing my forearm almost as if cold etc...........and I know people's reports have identified stimming for far less, but I pretty much expect mine to mention none of it!

  • Stimming would be mentioned briefly in the report if they recognised it as such but it doesn’t count towards the score for the ADOS. The scored parts that form part of the final score are social interaction and communication 

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