The report says pretty much what I was expecting:
- Evidence of qualitative impairments in social and emotional reciprocity, non verbal communication deficits and difficulties maintaining relationships
- Insufficient evidence in stereotyped and/or repetitive behaviours or highly restricted and fixated interests
So - on the face of it at this stage - not autistic.
Still will take a while to process but I was already a little ahead of the game I think - i.e. I just need to love myself as I am and not worry about what everyone else thinks.
I'm not sure how the ADOS might or might not change this conclusion. Particularly as I think ADOS is about social imagination ant interaction, so even a "positive" on the ADOS would add to the already ticked box whilst doing nothing to address the un-ticked box?
Still leaves me wondering "what am I?"
To be continued :-)
