Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi all,
I'm still digging around trying to understand what sorts of things are counted as meeting threshold for RRBs / IS in an autism diagnosis. Please note that I don't intend to fake any at my upcoming ADOS! What I'm after is some examples that allow me to settle the question in my mind that wonders if my clinical interview missed RRBs / IS that I *do* have, but aren't the stereotypical "obvious" ones.
I don't want a positive diagnosis if I'm not genuinely ASD, but neither do I want a negative diagnosis if I *am*.
Apart from the minor success I've had in discovering the RBQ2a, I'm drawing a blank in my internet based research.
There's some good references at the bottom of this article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939123/
and this is interesting, reading it might make you think about your own behaviours in terms of RRBs:
https://orca.cf.ac.uk/11580/1/leekam.pdf
This is good:
https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0242-4
This, which you posted a while ago is, I get the impression, the gold standard measurement of RRBs in adults, so I would definitely use your results for this and take them to your next appointment:
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/cargo-ne/Repetitive%20Behaviour%20Questionnaire%20(RBQ-2)scoring%20final1.pdf
Thank you - I will try to remember to come back here and read those!