Scared to talk to my psychiatrist.

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I think my psychiatrist will not go for the online testing thing....she is really down to earth and not into that stuff.

There were people who noticed, that something was very different with me, first they though a kind of borderline. Because I was struggeling for years I went to a clinic, where they take diagnosis. They asked me if I find the symptoms of borderline fitting to me. Then I read the criteria and doubted, because I am absolutely not agressive, promiscure and so on. I searched on the internet about borderline and read by incident about Aspergers and I felt this is describing me. I found the aspie-test and filled it out. 175/200. I went to my husband and let him fill it out as far as he though he could find traits of me in there the way he sees me in everyday life (we know each other for more then 10 years when I was a student). 180/200. He called the clinic and told them and so they got me tested by a specialist for autism. I myself would have had trouble ,too, comunicating to them about it, because I'm not good at it.

Maybe let someone else for the first time communicate about it.

I printed off a list of things that I think are worth mentioning to the psychiatrist, but then my boyfriend saw it and kind of freaked out at me saying the doctor needs to come up with the fact I have Aspergers and I shouldn’t bring it up at all. I am just so mixed up what I should do. I’m really upset because what if I really have Aspergers and my boyfriend doesn’t understand at all? His mother is the reason he is convinced I don’t have it, she said that she knows kids at the school she works at who have it and I apparently am nothing like them. UGH.

What do you think?

I'm not sure how it goes with adults, but with my child most of the process is several people answering questions about your child. Your doctor is not going to figure out if you have AS unless you give them information first. For you being an adult, printing off a list of AS traits that you feel pertain to you is starting the process that will happen anyway. Your psychiatrist may not value online tests, but that doesn't mean that they can't give a person information and insight. Just don't say you think you have autism because of your score, talk about why the score came out that way and what that may mean. Take your list of things worth mentioning, write down the things you experience that make you think that you have AS, talk about the tests and go from there. Maybe you and your boyfriend can explore this possibility together, just for the sake of doing it for your own piece of mind. Go over things, research traits and do tests and then talk about it together. He may see what his mother doesn't and get on board with you before you present this to your doctor. Then he may be more supportive and this won't be so hard for you because you won't be alone.

I'm sure there is a big difference between the kids your boyfriends mother see's and what manifests in adults. This may be something you and your boyfriend can explore. Autism is a spectrum, and there are spectrums in each trait in each person, and each person grows in different ways in different areas at different rates. My son has perfect, natural eye contact, that doesn't mean he doesn't have autism, he does. I'm sure of it. I've had people say he doesn't JUST because of that.

Thanks. I see the psychiatrist today and I am really, really nervous. I just am worried she will laugh at me.

I highly doubt she will laugh, and if she does, well, you need a new shrink.

she is a good psychiatrist...if she does laugh me out of the office...I dunno what to do.

45 minutes to my appointment. Eek

I got the nerve to talk to her. It went well! I do NOT have Asperger's I have Bipolar (which I already knew), OCD and Social Anxiety Disorder. I trust her. I am so happy with the news LOL.

I am so glad it went well