Adult Diagnosis Leicester General

This was the questionnaire the the consultant asked me to fill in. I answered the same and got a score of 45 but I don't know what that means (the first consultant who I saw would not tell me the result).

The people who took me in when I left care who I refer to ask my foster parent but I call them Mum and Dad noticed things they didn't think was right. Their other children have severe autism and adhd so they are knowledgeable about it and had suggested to me. I wouldn't listen to it at first but after they explained it and linked together all the difficulties I have and showed me this website it showed me that I wasnt 'normal'.

In terms of reason; [some of these I had never noticed until pointed out]

-Emotions: I have tremendous difficulty with understanding and expressing my own emotion. Even simply as happy and sad - the most complex it gets is 'not good'. I also don't understand other peoples emotions and unless there are laughing or crying then I have no clue what they're feeling and the way to react to that. I say things to people which they find offensive but I have no idea why.

-Routine: If I meant to be doing something and it doesn't happen I have a complete meltdown [ espcially if it more than one thing happens in one day]. Throwing things,  as my mum described, complete red mist. Foods cant touch, have to be on certain plates. The recent bank holiday has ruined me

-Sensory: I have sensory processing disorder. Bothered by loud sounds, certain clothes [will only wear shorts], certain foods, need weight etc

-Literal: I never understand the joke or I am the last, I don't understand pharese of speech - they mean nothing to me [I think they have nothing to do with the conversation anjd make no sense]

Facial expression: I find eye contact unbearable, I don't read facial expression well but I think that comes from bad emotional understanding.

No sense of danger: [this is my mums main issue] I don't have the ability to forward think, how what im going to say is going to upset people, if i run out into the road a car might hit me, liking certain things and not trying anything knew because i I stick to what I know there is never going to be any surprise.

Friends: I don't really have friends like other people do. Other people go out with friends and they text them and speak to them even when they don't want something like a lift but no one does that to me. When I'm at home no one speaks to me. I don't really know how to keep friends. Often I offend people and they tell me their not my friend. I find people very confusing and this cause great pain to me as I feel like everyone else got a rulebook to life, making friends and how to deal with people and I didn't get one.

This was the questionnaire the the consultant asked me to fill in. I answered the same and got a score of 45 but I don't know what that means (the first consultant who I saw would not tell me the result).

The people who took me in when I left care who I refer to ask my foster parent but I call them Mum and Dad noticed things they didn't think was right. Their other children have severe autism and adhd so they are knowledgeable about it and had suggested to me. I wouldn't listen to it at first but after they explained it and linked together all the difficulties I have and showed me this website it showed me that I wasnt 'normal'.

In terms of reason; [some of these I had never noticed until pointed out]

-Emotions: I have tremendous difficulty with understanding and expressing my own emotion. Even simply as happy and sad - the most complex it gets is 'not good'. I also don't understand other peoples emotions and unless there are laughing or crying then I have no clue what they're feeling and the way to react to that. I say things to people which they find offensive but I have no idea why.

-Routine: If I meant to be doing something and it doesn't happen I have a complete meltdown [ espcially if it more than one thing happens in one day]. Throwing things,  as my mum described, complete red mist. Foods cant touch, have to be on certain plates. The recent bank holiday has ruined me

-Sensory: I have sensory processing disorder. Bothered by loud sounds, certain clothes [will only wear shorts], certain foods, need weight etc

-Literal: I never understand the joke or I am the last, I don't understand pharese of speech - they mean nothing to me [I think they have nothing to do with the conversation anjd make no sense]

Facial expression: I find eye contact unbearable, I don't read facial expression well but I think that comes from bad emotional understanding.

No sense of danger: [this is my mums main issue] I don't have the ability to forward think, how what im going to say is going to upset people, if i run out into the road a car might hit me, liking certain things and not trying anything knew because i I stick to what I know there is never going to be any surprise.

Friends: I don't really have friends like other people do. Other people go out with friends and they text them and speak to them even when they don't want something like a lift but no one does that to me. When I'm at home no one speaks to me. I don't really know how to keep friends. Often I offend people and they tell me their not my friend. I find people very confusing and this cause great pain to me as I feel like everyone else got a rulebook to life, making friends and how to deal with people and I didn't get one.