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dhutch said:
https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-...
Just done this for interest, and got 39 our of 50.
I have a formal diagnose, which details something along the lines of 'traits many might lump in with Aspergers' and PDD-NOS.
However I also much prefer working with or at least around people than alone, and have informally diagnosed traits of ADHD, and have 34years of learning how to mask and fit in, which all gets thrown into the melting pot and increases my willingness towards spontaneity and social interactions.
Daniel
Your score was 32 out of a possible 50.Just done this for interest, and got 39 our of 50.
I have a formal diagnose, which details something along the lines of 'traits many might lump in with Aspergers' and PDD-NOS.
However I also much prefer working with or at least around people than alone, and have informally diagnosed traits of ADHD, and have 34years of learning how to mask and fit in, which all gets thrown into the melting pot and increases my willingness towards spontaneity and social interactions.
Daniel
Scores in the 26-32 range indicate some Autistic traits (Asperger's Syndrome).
Sort of as expected....just learning to live with it i guess
simonw67 said:
dhutch said:
https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-...
Just done this for interest, and got 39 our of 50.
I have a formal diagnose, which details something along the lines of 'traits many might lump in with Aspergers' and PDD-NOS.
However I also much prefer working with or at least around people than alone, and have informally diagnosed traits of ADHD, and have 34years of learning how to mask and fit in, which all gets thrown into the melting pot and increases my willingness towards spontaneity and social interactions.
Daniel
Your score was 32 out of a possible 50.Just done this for interest, and got 39 our of 50.
I have a formal diagnose, which details something along the lines of 'traits many might lump in with Aspergers' and PDD-NOS.
However I also much prefer working with or at least around people than alone, and have informally diagnosed traits of ADHD, and have 34years of learning how to mask and fit in, which all gets thrown into the melting pot and increases my willingness towards spontaneity and social interactions.
Daniel
Scores in the 26-32 range indicate some Autistic traits (Asperger's Syndrome).
Sort of as expected....just learning to live with it i guess
Edited by sparkyhx on Friday 3rd December 22:07
wiggy001 said:
Exactly the same, although my wife and I have fluctuated - I buried myself into learning about autism, then into work and now I think I have the balance right.
I did the test last night - 36. Like you I am toying with the idea of seeking a diagnosis for myself.
Had to take my daughter to the doctor this afternoon so just asked in passing what I would need to do to get assessed. She printed me their AQ test form, asked me to complete it then hand it in when booking an appointment with the GP to get the ball rolling.I did the test last night - 36. Like you I am toying with the idea of seeking a diagnosis for myself.
Not 100% sure why I am doing this, but I feel like I have been on a "journey" over the past 6-9 months where I have faced my own depression and anxiety head on (to the benefit of myself and, most importantly, my family) and this feels like another step to better understanding myself.
wiggy001 said:
Had to take my daughter to the doctor this afternoon so just asked in passing what I would need to do to get assessed. She printed me their AQ test form, asked me to complete it then hand it in when booking an appointment with the GP to get the ball rolling.
Not 100% sure why I am doing this, but I feel like I have been on a "journey" over the past 6-9 months where I have faced my own depression and anxiety head on (to the benefit of myself and, most importantly, my family) and this feels like another step to better understanding myself.
39 for meNot 100% sure why I am doing this, but I feel like I have been on a "journey" over the past 6-9 months where I have faced my own depression and anxiety head on (to the benefit of myself and, most importantly, my family) and this feels like another step to better understanding myself.
42 for me on that test. My 7 year old son has a diagnosis (as I mentioned in a previous post on this thread). I have a clinical diagnosis for chronic anxiety and acute panic disorder dating back a few years to a difficult time I had before my son's birth and the psychiatrist who helped me then gave me a pretty good steer that there was potentially underlying ASD.
Getting my son's diagnosis was positive for him, it has opened up a number of things for him and thankfully he's doing well at school who have been excellent to date. It was also an eye-opener for me. It brought back so many things from childhood and has helped me make more sense of who I am.
Getting my son's diagnosis was positive for him, it has opened up a number of things for him and thankfully he's doing well at school who have been excellent to date. It was also an eye-opener for me. It brought back so many things from childhood and has helped me make more sense of who I am.
MrJuice said:
Good luck with the appeal. We found the local sendias service very helpful in collating the right stuff for the appeal. Thankfully, we were successful at appeal. We submitted paperwork in April, delays by the LA, appeal heard in August, successful, EHCP finalised December, started school January. This school is the ideal setting for our son and the EHCP process, while really really draining, is a distant memory now.
All the best
My best mate has a 4yr old son with autism. He still isn't in any schooling/special schooling as Brighton apparently is overwhelmed with the sheer number of specialist need children. Its not as though they are trying to claim he hasn't just that they can't cope. All the best
That is crackers.
vulture1 said:
29/50
Thing is you get to notice the questions that will result in the asnswer each way.
And i've known im a bit different in how i think and things i remember so have managed to "fake" and train my brain to manage other situations that are difficult.
Its called 'Masking' and it takes a huge mental effort both in doing it and also the 'fear of getting it wrong' causes a huge anxiety and mental health toll.Thing is you get to notice the questions that will result in the asnswer each way.
And i've known im a bit different in how i think and things i remember so have managed to "fake" and train my brain to manage other situations that are difficult.
Women are generally better at it, hence the lower diagnosis rate and why the above AQ-Quotient test is a bit outdated to a certain extent, but its a good indicator. AQ was done by Baron-Cohen when he belived women didnt have Autism. The RAADS-R is better along with a few others that attempt to measure masking (CAT-Q Test) and sensory issues (Sensory profile Test).
sparkyhx said:
vulture1 said:
29/50
Thing is you get to notice the questions that will result in the asnswer each way.
And i've known im a bit different in how i think and things i remember so have managed to "fake" and train my brain to manage other situations that are difficult.
Its called 'Masking' and it takes a huge mental effort both in doing it and also the 'fear of getting it wrong' causes a huge anxiety and mental health toll.Thing is you get to notice the questions that will result in the asnswer each way.
And i've known im a bit different in how i think and things i remember so have managed to "fake" and train my brain to manage other situations that are difficult.
Women are generally better at it, hence the lower diagnosis rate and why the above AQ-Quotient test is a bit outdated to a certain extent, but its a good indicator. AQ was done by Baron-Cohen when he belived women didnt have Autism. The RAADS-R is better along with a few others that attempt to measure masking (CAT-Q Test) and sensory issues (Sensory profile Test).
The threshold is 65 and he average for males with ASD is 149. This pretty much explains a few things...
Interesting thread - my 18 year old Step-son was finally diagnosed with Autism last year and my 7 year old daughter is going through the process at the moment thanks to my wife's desire to learn as much on the subject as possible. She suspects she may also be on the spectrum and she thinks I may have some traits. My other two kids are much easier work, but I suspect at least one may share my issues with anxiety, which I only recently realised I have.
If both of us are on the spectrum our kids have no chance!
If both of us are on the spectrum our kids have no chance!
Castrol for a knave said:
I clocked 182 on the RAADS R test.
The threshold is 65 and he average for males with ASD is 149. This pretty much explains a few things...
I got 141, and overall, very closely followed average for males on the categories.The threshold is 65 and he average for males with ASD is 149. This pretty much explains a few things...
Some of the questions are very black and white, and my response would be a 'slightly' or 'sometimes' which the questionnaire doesn't account for in this instance. Others I am very aware that my 'high functioning' nature combined with my parents awareness and support from a very early age, allows me to mask and change the way I would otherwise answer.
Equally, for some of them, I have never complied with the stereotype at all. For instance I like being hugged.
dhutch said:
Castrol for a knave said:
I clocked 182 on the RAADS R test.
The threshold is 65 and he average for males with ASD is 149. This pretty much explains a few things...
I got 141, and overall, very closely followed average for males on the categories.The threshold is 65 and he average for males with ASD is 149. This pretty much explains a few things...
Some of the questions are very black and white, and my response would be a 'slightly' or 'sometimes' which the questionnaire doesn't account for in this instance. Others I am very aware that my 'high functioning' nature combined with my parents awareness and support from a very early age, allows me to mask and change the way I would otherwise answer.
Equally, for some of them, I have never complied with the stereotype at all. For instance I like being hugged.
sparkyhx said:
hugging is a common one, some people don't like touch, but love big deep hugs...................go figure
Each to their own. I don't mind being touch, in terms of shaking hands, bumping into someone in a crowded space, and happy to be hugged with a shallow hug or by someone fairly random. Although obviously if someone of the street just jumped me for a hug, or a colleague started stroking my hair, i would question wtf was going on!How does everyone with Autistic children fair socially as parents?
My wife and I have found ourselves pretty isolated over the last couple of years. There are a few reasons for this other than the situation we are in now. But our attempts to find friends with similar children have been really difficult.
We find most of the parents we meet are just really down trodden and massively negative about their situation. Have absolutely no interest in engaging with anyone else other than to compare notes about what support they are getting. No interest in getting the kids out to do stuff or anything just seem to want to barricade themselves in.
We also struggle because looking after our son by yourself is very challenging so socialising individually is quite selfish. Last time I went to the pub I came home to my wife with a split lip and claw marks down her neck.
So how does everyone manage?
My wife and I have found ourselves pretty isolated over the last couple of years. There are a few reasons for this other than the situation we are in now. But our attempts to find friends with similar children have been really difficult.
We find most of the parents we meet are just really down trodden and massively negative about their situation. Have absolutely no interest in engaging with anyone else other than to compare notes about what support they are getting. No interest in getting the kids out to do stuff or anything just seem to want to barricade themselves in.
We also struggle because looking after our son by yourself is very challenging so socialising individually is quite selfish. Last time I went to the pub I came home to my wife with a split lip and claw marks down her neck.
So how does everyone manage?
I find that we have been isolated by the parents of neuro typical children. Our son attends a mainstream school and goes to the autism unit within the school for targeted interventions.
My wife has a mental breakdown over Xmas and needed to be sectioned. She wrote identical messages saying as such on the class WhatsApp groups for the mainstream class and the autism unit class. No one replied from the mainstream class. Not one. Not on the group or privately. Everyone replied on the autism unit group.
My friend are aware of my son's diagnosis and never shy away from play dates and things.
I don't know what to make of it and don't spend time dwelling on it tbh. If a family wants to mingle with us, we will make effort. If they don't want to mingle, no problem. We are probably better off without them.
My wife has a mental breakdown over Xmas and needed to be sectioned. She wrote identical messages saying as such on the class WhatsApp groups for the mainstream class and the autism unit class. No one replied from the mainstream class. Not one. Not on the group or privately. Everyone replied on the autism unit group.
My friend are aware of my son's diagnosis and never shy away from play dates and things.
I don't know what to make of it and don't spend time dwelling on it tbh. If a family wants to mingle with us, we will make effort. If they don't want to mingle, no problem. We are probably better off without them.
MrJuice said:
I find that we have been isolated by the parents of neuro typical children. Our son attends a mainstream school and goes to the autism unit within the school for targeted interventions.
My wife has a mental breakdown over Xmas and needed to be sectioned. She wrote identical messages saying as such on the class WhatsApp groups for the mainstream class and the autism unit class. No one replied from the mainstream class. Not one. Not on the group or privately. Everyone replied on the autism unit group.
My friend are aware of my son's diagnosis and never shy away from play dates and things.
I don't know what to make of it and don't spend time dwelling on it tbh. If a family wants to mingle with us, we will make effort. If they don't want to mingle, no problem. We are probably better off without them.
Things a bit different for us. Our son is at a special needs school can’t get the parents involved at all. Tried holding parties and events got no engagement.My wife has a mental breakdown over Xmas and needed to be sectioned. She wrote identical messages saying as such on the class WhatsApp groups for the mainstream class and the autism unit class. No one replied from the mainstream class. Not one. Not on the group or privately. Everyone replied on the autism unit group.
My friend are aware of my son's diagnosis and never shy away from play dates and things.
I don't know what to make of it and don't spend time dwelling on it tbh. If a family wants to mingle with us, we will make effort. If they don't want to mingle, no problem. We are probably better off without them.
Our son was diagnosed at 2 so never really had typical friends. The 2 that we had blocked us on social media and stopped answering our calls when we told them the diagnosis. That hurt, especially as one friend particularly preaches open mindedness etc.
Pretty frustrating.
sparkyhx said:
hugging is a common one, some people don't like touch, but live big deep hugs...................go figure
I love Big deep full of expression hugs and wrestling. I hate polite chit chat, actively being rude to avoid it.
I have a approx 1 min conversation pot daily. When it's used up I'm rude.
MrJuice said:
No one replied from the mainstream class. Not one. Not on the group or privately. Everyone replied on the autism unit group.
ntiz said:
Our son was diagnosed at 2 so never really had typical friends. The 2 that we had blocked us on social media and stopped answering our calls when we told them the diagnosis. That hurt, especially as one friend particularly preaches open mindedness etc.
Wow, what utter a
holes.As said before, I am 34, and attending residential special needs school for high school, if conventional primary and 6th form.
The high school was such that effectively non of the pupils met outside of school, which I guess made for a bit of an odd environment, and even during 6thform as I joined a schools 6th form there where a lot of established friendship groups I never really broke in to, plus it was a half hour drive with no public transport links from where we lived.
But for existing friends, and their parents to be like that is awful. Maybe it happened to my parents too, I guess I moved school and was expecting to loose my old friends.
I have maintain in touch with a very small number of them, but do have some dialog with 2 from primary, and one and a few teachers from secondary, till he ended up in prison.
The world can be a harsh place.
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