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HappyDays

hello everyone,

what an exhausting day. been for an assessment today with daughter, wont be getting a diagnosis for a while as it takes them ages to get round to it. 

The main reason im posting is because today i was asked by the person assessing my daughter if i have ASC. This is not the first time i have heard this. whilst ive been on the long road of diagnosis for my other children 3 others. we had the discussion about autism being genetically more inclined from the fathers side, but when i said that i have been married twice and have children from both marriages diagnosed he said " thats interesting"?.

when i said do you think 

i display autistic traits he said Yes, but of course im not saying you have asc.

im kind of not getting what he was getting at i am now confused.

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  • There is a whole spectrum of being that stretches from the most neurotypical of neurotypicals to the most autistic of autistics and everyone lies on that spectrum somewhere.

    The divisions imposed by psychologists upon the autistic end of that spectrum (Asperger's, PDD-NOS, Autism, etc, etc) are entirely artificial and have very blurry, and overlapping, boundaries, and so it is with the neurotypical end, and the area in the middle.

    What this means is that you can have lots of autistic traits but not, clinicaly, be 'on the autistic spectrum', or, indeed, you could be on the autistic spectrum but never have had the kind of problems that lead to a formal diagnosis.

    Does that make sense?

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  • There is a whole spectrum of being that stretches from the most neurotypical of neurotypicals to the most autistic of autistics and everyone lies on that spectrum somewhere.

    The divisions imposed by psychologists upon the autistic end of that spectrum (Asperger's, PDD-NOS, Autism, etc, etc) are entirely artificial and have very blurry, and overlapping, boundaries, and so it is with the neurotypical end, and the area in the middle.

    What this means is that you can have lots of autistic traits but not, clinicaly, be 'on the autistic spectrum', or, indeed, you could be on the autistic spectrum but never have had the kind of problems that lead to a formal diagnosis.

    Does that make sense?

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