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capers123

First time post here, so Hi

For quite some time I've had my suspicions that I'm higher up the Scale than the average person, to the point that I nearly booked a GP appointment last week do ask for a referral. 

Then on Saturday I found a link to the Channel 4 'How Autistic Are You?' Questionnaire - which gives a non-diagnostic idea of where you are on the spectrum.  It was designed by Prof Baron-Cohen & Dr David Greenberg, so I feel at least it will be quite a good pointer, if not 100% accurate.

A small group of us took the test. One of the group already has a diagnosis of High-Functioning Autism and scored 9 out of 10. The other 3 scored 1, 3 & 6, the latter (my partner) exhibiting some autistic traits.  I scored 10.  The questionnaire recommended considering a specialist diagnostic assesment if scoring over 6, so I have booked a GP appointment.  My partner did question what benefit getting a formal diagnosis would be, to which I replied that at least it would help explain some of the ways I react and see life and why I've often been regarded as a bit of an odd-ball.

I read on some of the information pages on this site that for adult diagnosis, one has to take an informant - someone who knew you as a child.  Aged 55, my parents are both dead, and I have no other relatives of their peer group, nor siblings.  I've started writing down all I can remember from childhood - most of which seem to be instances of perceived injustice or anger at logic not being followed.  Is that likely to be enough or will I not get a diagnosis?

I must say that our children both scored very low in the tests, thus proving that it's not necessarily a genetic trait. Phew.

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  • I've started a 'potted history of oddities' as well (not that I'd been asked for one yet, but had thought it would be helpful to show my GP).  So far I'm at 3993 words, but there are quite a few bits with just one or two words that need expanding out and I keep thinking of extra things to put in.  Good job it's on Dropbox so I can add bits at the first opportunity.

    I do have a bit of a habit of going 'beyond what is expected' when writing things of that nature.

    Over the last few weeks I've been playing for some dancers who performed before and in the finale of a concert at weekends around the country.  It was backstage at one last weekend that we did the C4 test and the possible diagnosis/explanation dawned on me.

    Yesterday we had another show (along with the dreaded socialising in the Green Room at the after-party). All in all, I found it a lot easier this week, having done a lot of reading around Autism/Aspies; I even had my group of dancers back to my room  once we got the to hotel in Widnes (I'd tried to persuade them to use someone elses room with out luck - partly because I had the supply of gin). Although on reflection they may have preferred to leave before 1:50am, as I'd broken into logical discussion of our local parliamentary candidates after discussing using fake red wigs as merkins for future performances. I'm not very good at knowing boudaries of what's acceptable in a social situation.

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  • I've started a 'potted history of oddities' as well (not that I'd been asked for one yet, but had thought it would be helpful to show my GP).  So far I'm at 3993 words, but there are quite a few bits with just one or two words that need expanding out and I keep thinking of extra things to put in.  Good job it's on Dropbox so I can add bits at the first opportunity.

    I do have a bit of a habit of going 'beyond what is expected' when writing things of that nature.

    Over the last few weeks I've been playing for some dancers who performed before and in the finale of a concert at weekends around the country.  It was backstage at one last weekend that we did the C4 test and the possible diagnosis/explanation dawned on me.

    Yesterday we had another show (along with the dreaded socialising in the Green Room at the after-party). All in all, I found it a lot easier this week, having done a lot of reading around Autism/Aspies; I even had my group of dancers back to my room  once we got the to hotel in Widnes (I'd tried to persuade them to use someone elses room with out luck - partly because I had the supply of gin). Although on reflection they may have preferred to leave before 1:50am, as I'd broken into logical discussion of our local parliamentary candidates after discussing using fake red wigs as merkins for future performances. I'm not very good at knowing boudaries of what's acceptable in a social situation.

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