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Trev

Hi Folks,

I got my formal diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder yesterday by phone (through the NHS), I should receive my diagnosis in writing with some detail in the next 5-10 days.

I asked for the assessment as I seemed to exhibit the characteristics of someone with autism and I had looked up the NICE guidelines and downloaded the research paper for the Adult Aspergers Assessment and completed the questionnaire as honestly as I could, then looked at the score I got which was just enough to meet the criteria - I can't remember if the assessment was either 2 or 3 years later, but the assessment was using ADI-R and ADOS and I intentionally didn't look up the research related those types of assessments as I didn't want to give answers based upon prior knowledge of the test.

I quite like making things although at the moment the project I'm working on is fixing an old van I'll be using to transport me and my electric wheelchair as it turned out to need rather a lot of work - I've fixed most of the faults on it, but still have some welding to do on it.

Best regards

Trev

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  • in reply to DormouseAtRest_25

    Thanks - the van should make trips to the local shops less tiring and my health isn't up to doing much more than that, I try to do a bit on the van each day (when I can manage it), but haven't done much welding so far as I find it quite tiring putting on all of the welding gear and moving the welding equipment outside.  Even though I've fixed most of the technical faults and there isn't a great deal of welding to do it will still take me quite a while to get it done, I'm hoping I'll be able to get it finished by the end of the year.