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Advice - ASD assessment

NAS89617
11 months ago

Hi all, 

I had my ASD assessment this morning and was told that I am not autistic because I only meet 2 out of the 3 criteria for a diagnosis. I originally scored 45 out of 50 for the AQ50 and I really felt like I was going to be diagnosed wih ASD. 

The one that I failed at was to do with habits, routines and dealing with change etc. At the time of the assessment I didn't really think that much into this side of things because I have always been more focused on the socialisation side of ASD. 

I don't really like to do anything other than stay at home and don't have any special interests other than films/tv so I never really thought about whether I have routines or habits. There are little things I like to do and I struggle with ambiguous instructions but other than that, I can't think of any other routine type things. 

I was just wondering if anyone has had a similar issue or any advice? I don't know whether I should contact psychiatry UK to just let them know of the things I have thought about now but I don't want them to think I am making it up because I failed the examination. Sorry for the long post. 

  • 11 months ago

    I'd wait til you get the report to see what it says. For me the section (B) that includes routine on the report has 4 different things of which you have to meet 2 out of the 4 and they need to evidence it. 

    So it could be they didn't have sufficient evidence to put it down as met and officially diagnose you as autistic or you could be sub-clinical in terms of the assessment criteria.  The report should tell you more.

  • 11 months ago

    Autism is a spectrum condition so while you can have a number of autistic traits and indeed be neurotypical, you only get a diagnosis if your traits are above a certain level in all 3 areas.

    The reasoning behind this is that the diagnosis is primarily to define you as disabled by your traits so you can seek help with dealing with them if you choose.

    It sounds like you are autistic but just not autistic enough to need the classification as disabled. I would take that as a positive - you now enough to seek help in the areas you are having trouble with and know the probable reasons.