MathGirl wrote:
Alright, so here's my diagnosis. I am scared that I might get in trouble for this, because apparently my report is very confidential.
Page 1Page 2Page 3Page 4I chose not to include the last page since there was nothing on it except for the rest of the axes and my GAF.
I am also curious to see other people's diagnoses. Alexptrans, it would be awesome if you could translate your report.
I really liked reading Poppy's diagnosis, too. There were definitely many things I could relate to, such as not being functional without routines.
I'll keep obsessing about this thread now because I would like to see some feedback related to my diagnosis.
Thanks for posting yours, MathGirl! A lot of it sounds familiar to my own experiences. I was also verbally and physically bullied in middle school, it was actually the worst time of my life. And that whole paragraph about friends and reciprocation and copying people could have been written about me. So you studied Ukrainian? That's funny, because half of my family is from the Ukraine.
Anyway, here's a translation of my report - it's not quite as detailed as yours, because I had to pay more for a more comprehensive report and couldn't really afford it.
Alex was referred for the purpose of examining whether his condition could be classified as Asperger's Disorder.
Alex is a young man, who translates articles about the Middle East for the [Workplace]. His employment there began after his employer saw previous translations he had performed.
Alex studied Semitic Linguistics at a university for two years; however, he dropped out since he was required to choose a second major and was not permitted to concentrate solely on Semitic Linguistics as he was initially promised. He was not interested in any other major. He was found unfit for military service [note: military service is mandatory here] due to adjustment difficulties; according to Alex, he was referred to a military psychiatrist who decided he could not be recruited to the army. Alex studied at [School], Information Technology concentration. Eventually he chose not to study most of the courses specific to that concentration so that he could focus on basic matriculation courses, since he had difficulties with programming and physics. When asked why he chose to go to Information Technology concentration, he says that his parents sent him, so he did. Matriculation scores: his lowest score was in Bible Studies; his score in Mathematics was 86 percent; his score in English was 100. In junior high school he was often called "alien face". In high school he was known as a person with superficial friends only, i.e., people did not come to his home for socialization. He had a girlfriend who studied in the same class with him. The relationship lasted for more than a year before it was ended on the initiative of the girlfriend. Nowadays, most of his social activities are with his parents. His employer visits him as well on occasion; so far he has visited him three times (he is also a translator).
Family:
His parents are originally from [Country]. His mother was born in [Country], while he was born in [Country]. Lived in [Country] for a while.
His brother, [Name], is 20 years old and is in the army. When asked about his relationship with him, Alex says: "When I see him at my parents' sometimes, I talk to him". His brother's behavior towards him is reasonable.
His mother, [Name], 50, is a teacher by trade, and is in good health. Her mother lives in Israel and his grandfather lives in Germany. He has no relationship with his grandfather; while he does see his grandmother on occasion. His mother has "one brother or maybe two, I don't know". She came to Israel with him and with his father as a young woman.
His father, [Name], 50, engineer, and is also in good health. The father's parents passed away - his mother died from cancer and his father died from "something, maybe something with his brain". The father has no brothers. "He is a regular person".
He came to Israel when he was seven years old. The family first arrived to [City] and lived with relatives for a while. His parents rented a small apartment, moved to a larger one, and finally bought their own. Alex moved to his own apartment four to five years ago. He says he did not feel comfortable staying in his parents' house because a friend of the family was going to live there for two weeks, so he left due to concerns about the impact the friend's visit would have on his routines.
His lifestyle is narrow and fairly strict: Alex adheres to strict habits concerning eating and daily life. He does not like to eat outside, not even with his parents. He goes to a country club once every two weeks with his parents; he also exercises at home according to a program he downloaded from the internet. He is interested in languages, particularly in phonological properties and emphatic consonants. The languages that interest him include Amharic and Tigre. He is fascinated by and is intensely preoccupied by relationships between sounds, consonant and vowel shifts, and mutual influences sounds have on one another. He discusses those matters with his employer. He has no significant connections, except posting on a linguistics message board.
Alex watches TV series such as Seinfeld and Star Trek. He goes to bed at midnight and wakes up at 8:00 AM. He describes a ritual involving the preparation of tea; other, much more intrusive rituals existed when he was younger. He is not currently interested in being treated with medications.
During the assessment sessions:
There is no normative eye contact - Alex looks "near" the eyes. He sits with his bag on until I recommend he take it off. His tone of voice is robotic and monotonous. Responds to humor with a "little" laugh. He presented as an intelligent, well-mannered young man. He describes himself fully and precisely, and meets all the criteria for Asperger's Syndrome Disorder according to the DSM-IV-TR.
28 Jul 2010, 2:56 pm
