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Do I have autism ?

Richard
over 1 year ago

Hi ,

Sorry if this is a long ramble but I have been thinking about it for a while .

My son has autism and learning difficulties , when I have told people a couple have commented 'I think you have it ' and my wifes said the same .

In truth it's not something I either knew or thought about until my sons diagnosis ,and has thrown up a lot of contradictions in my own head as I have always been a bit 'different ' but I just put it down to us all being unique in our own way . 

I enjoy spending time by myself and need that , as I have always found people exhausting after an amount of time but I have always just thought i was more introverted than extroverted , although I have lots of friends it takes me a while to take to someone ; but once I do they are my friend forever I guess .

I really have set routine and a massive fear of change , the main fear is the fear that something will change .even if when it gets to the 'thing ' that I am worried about does not actually change -it really stresses me out and I wish i could change and cope better with this again I thought this was just part of my personality .

I get fixated on things and tend to only be able to focus on that one thing at once and it sort of takes over , I cannot think about more than one thing at once and tend to just function and think about that thing - it's my teeth at this point as I decided to try and improve them so I have been talking about them a lot at home , it's normally some sort of sporting statistics as I love sports .

I struggle to understand empathy to , emotions and other peoples are very difficult for my I have not cried since I was 10 and I am now 35 .

That's a brief overview , It's something that that keeps popping in to my head and was wondering if anyone else is similiar /been in the same situation and if i should go down the route of a potential diagnosis . 

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  • over 1 year ago

    My stock advice is, take some online autism tests. AQ10 and AQ50 (sometimes called just 'AQ') are the most commonly used by clinicians in this country, but the RAADS-R is the most definitive. They can be found here: embrace-autism.com/.../
    If you score in the autism range it will give you more certainty about following up on a diagnosis.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Martin

    Thanks Martin i just did one of the tests and scored 35/50  on the AQ50 one i will try the others later .

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Richard

    I scored 141 on that Raads one  .

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Richard

    Autistic traits can be very definite strengths. My eye for detail and thoroughness made me the go to person for proofreading PhD theses in my university department. I lost count of how many I have done. My own theses were both passed without correction, which is relatively unusual. Once I worked out that I was most probably autistic, I needed external confirmation and validation. Luckily, I was in the fortunate position to be able to afford a private assessment, so only waited about a month.

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  • over 1 year ago in reply to Richard

    Autistic traits can be very definite strengths. My eye for detail and thoroughness made me the go to person for proofreading PhD theses in my university department. I lost count of how many I have done. My own theses were both passed without correction, which is relatively unusual. Once I worked out that I was most probably autistic, I needed external confirmation and validation. Luckily, I was in the fortunate position to be able to afford a private assessment, so only waited about a month.

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