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Undiagnosed4321

Hi,

I've signed up here because this community seems so much more populated, so Im sure of an answer.

Far be it from me to be a hypochondriac, but every time someone talks to me about aspergers, I think 'that sounds like me'. I thoughts I'd run the online tests and they came out very interest.

I don't have all the symptoms, but I feel it is the closest match and Im looking to go to my GP so I have somewhere to start.

The things that don't seem to match with me though, is that Im good with eye contact (as far as I know - I remember playing the "who blinks first" game at school), Im good (as far as I know) with detecting emotion - but I'll tell you more about that later, I'm happy with change and don't have routines. I also have a desire to be social - though that may have come about due to starting to go to Church and learning different priorities.

However I do have a desire to be in control, my eye contact is different with different people. My social skills are poor, I don't invite anyone anywhere. Most of my adult life, my repertoire when talking to others, has been jokes, tv quotes, and relating to people by talking about my interests. I don't connect very well with other people as I just can't think of any questions.

The AQ test is a nightmare, do I enjoy social chit chat? Define enjoy, define chit chat? I like being with my friends. So do I prefer the theater or museum? No idea. My friends invite me to the theater, so I go. Haven't been to a museum in ages. I don't know if I would enjoy it. Mostly I want to keep to myself though. I have no special skills. 

I have problem with emotion and memory recall.

So. My test results.

AQ between 31 and 41 depending on how I interpret the questions.

EQ 22

SQ 60

FQ 71

Eyes in the Mind (looking at the answers) 27

Eyes in the Mind (not looking at the answers) 14

AS you can see AQ and EQ are the anomaly ones here. Whether SQ and FQ could be learned behaviour?

The interesting one is the reading the mind in the eyes test.

If I do it while looking at the answers, I get 27. Normal NT score. If I do it while looking at the eyes and trying to guess the emotion, I get something which doesn't even exist in the choices. Mostly I'll get Happy, Sad, and "that face makes me feel angry", I might extrapolate a couple of more words like, guilty looking, concerned, concerned about something... So without looking at the answers, I get 14. When I uncover the answers, I quickly work out which one it is. Thre's a few faces where I'll get "Happy", there's only one happy answer but it's say Flirting with three negative emotions, it's clearly not flirting though so I actually end up putting the emotion on the face from the choices. Very quickly.

I have absolute zero idea what any of these actually mean.

Can you offer any interpretation?

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  • Yes, I interpret that you're so busy doing tests that you're not paying attention to yourself.

    I fully endorse what Longman has said here.

    We need to get diagnosis better informed because it is vital to diagnose any Autism Spectrum Condition as early as possible. In my opinion, people who are still using the various spellings of the term term 'Asperger' aren't even bothering to understand why the term 'Autism Spectrum' is better, and prefered. This is not moving forwards or helping our children.

    The best thing you can do is stop doing tests and start being you. Try writing down how your life has been, difficulties, thoughts and feelings you have, anything at all that you experience. Diagnosisng AS is a holistic things, tick-box lists are rubbish and dangerously misleading, you should see what some of us think about the 'triad of imparments'. Let's not go there at the moment.

    'Tests' have brought you here, and that's all they're good for in the way that you have done them. I encourage you to seek a proper diagnosis from someone qualified to give one, and your start point should be a referal for it from your GP. No-one on here is qualified to 'interpret' your results, nor would we want to. In any case, we won't. But, we CAN help you to understand yourself (we want to) and we can try to help you with presenting your case to your GP.

    It starts by stopping talking about 'tests' that at best are poor tools and only indicative, and starting to talk about you. So please do, we love to welcome, help and support new chums!

    Welcome to the family, by the way

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  • Yes, I interpret that you're so busy doing tests that you're not paying attention to yourself.

    I fully endorse what Longman has said here.

    We need to get diagnosis better informed because it is vital to diagnose any Autism Spectrum Condition as early as possible. In my opinion, people who are still using the various spellings of the term term 'Asperger' aren't even bothering to understand why the term 'Autism Spectrum' is better, and prefered. This is not moving forwards or helping our children.

    The best thing you can do is stop doing tests and start being you. Try writing down how your life has been, difficulties, thoughts and feelings you have, anything at all that you experience. Diagnosisng AS is a holistic things, tick-box lists are rubbish and dangerously misleading, you should see what some of us think about the 'triad of imparments'. Let's not go there at the moment.

    'Tests' have brought you here, and that's all they're good for in the way that you have done them. I encourage you to seek a proper diagnosis from someone qualified to give one, and your start point should be a referal for it from your GP. No-one on here is qualified to 'interpret' your results, nor would we want to. In any case, we won't. But, we CAN help you to understand yourself (we want to) and we can try to help you with presenting your case to your GP.

    It starts by stopping talking about 'tests' that at best are poor tools and only indicative, and starting to talk about you. So please do, we love to welcome, help and support new chums!

    Welcome to the family, by the way

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