Another diagnosis-related question

Hi, two things spring to mind here, both reasons why you being able to pick up on the fact that your daughter is getting angry is not indicative of whether or not you are ‘on the spectrum’. The first is that having Aspergers, I personally, can not read the vast majority of the population, my daughters on the other hand I can read like a book. I always know if either my 21 year old or my 4 year old are lying and I’m very tuned in to my 2 year old. Perhaps it’s down to maternal instinct or just how well I know them. The second, is that there are different ways of reading people, even those of us who have ASD can learn that when person X engages in a certain sequence of behaviour it results in Y. Some behaviours are also more obvious than others. For example, I work in mental health, if I am at work and one of the patients is shouting/pacing/etc then they are angry about something and if someone doesn’t address the cause of anger in an agreeable way then that patients behaviour will escalate even further. I’m still ridiculously mind blind, but I have learnt to read certain, more obvious behavioural cues. I’d suggest it’s the same with you realising that your daughter is angry, you’ve observed the sequence of behaviour so many times that you can now predict the outcome. How did you answer the examiners question about this?

Not worrying is easier said than done and BTW over thinking things is definitely a sign of ASD :-)

Thanks & that’s reminded me of something I said a few times in my interview. You said you feel that you’re ridiculous mind blind; how do you know? How do you know there’s something that you can’t see or know? I said several times “I don’t know how much I’m missing because I don’t know what I don’t know” :-)

Thanks & that’s reminded me of something I said a few times in my interview. You said you feel that you’re ridiculous mind blind; how do you know? How do you know there’s something that you can’t see or know? I said several times “I don’t know how much I’m missing because I don’t know what I don’t know” :-)

I guess I can sense that there's something that I don't get or understand when I'm talking to people, I just can't work out what. Sometimes it feels as if they're talking in a different language!