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

I'm done with Christmas Cards

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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  • I finally had my assessment recently, but I forgot to mention obsessions when asked. I did briefly mention a strong interest I have now as an adult (maybe just one sentence). We were mainly talking about my early childhood, but given that as a child, what I was able to do in life was mainly determined by adults (e.g., parents & teachers), I didn't have much freedom of developing routines and obsessions. In later childhood and teenage years, I developed obsessions (?) but I think of them more like hobbies (and they weren't very unusual and I would be fine if for some reason I wasn't able to do those things for a few days), but didn't think to mention it at the time. I don't think it's necessary to have strong "classical" obsessions to get a diagnosis, and I think the ones you mention are actually quite often what many people with ASD experience - trains numbers and aircrafts are just the stereotypical ones.

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  • I finally had my assessment recently, but I forgot to mention obsessions when asked. I did briefly mention a strong interest I have now as an adult (maybe just one sentence). We were mainly talking about my early childhood, but given that as a child, what I was able to do in life was mainly determined by adults (e.g., parents & teachers), I didn't have much freedom of developing routines and obsessions. In later childhood and teenage years, I developed obsessions (?) but I think of them more like hobbies (and they weren't very unusual and I would be fine if for some reason I wasn't able to do those things for a few days), but didn't think to mention it at the time. I don't think it's necessary to have strong "classical" obsessions to get a diagnosis, and I think the ones you mention are actually quite often what many people with ASD experience - trains numbers and aircrafts are just the stereotypical ones.

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