Do you question your diagnosis?

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I question why I haven't been diagnosed witih AS yet, though I don't question the other diagnoses I got, as I do have those also (social phobia/anxiety, OCD (about some things anyway) and AvPD.)

There has never been a time where I was completely accepting of me being supposedly "autistic".

To be fair though, my developmental delays were pretty convincing of it. Not completely, though.

Sometimes I question my diagnosis, of classic autism, sometimes i seem very high functioning to the point that you can def tell something is wrong, but not ever think classic autism at all. But then theres days i become nonverbal all over again for the day haha, so i guess the diagnosis does kinda fit me at times haha.

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Yes, I am. I'm 14 and was diagnosed with HFA at age 13. But i wonder why i wasn't diagnosed with AS, because i did start talking..... when i was 2 i talked like a 3 year-old

When I was six once I found a lot of written documentation about me. I understood enough of it to see that people were watching me and investigating my movement, and this bothered me so I talked to my mother about it. She then gave me "the talk" that people thought I wasn't quite normal and that I had this and that but they were wrong. I feel that in a sense she was wrong - because there was something strange about what I was doing, and it could justifiably be associated with autism - but in a sense she was right, because I could adapt to my school environment OK without needing much supervision.

The timing of this was very good because it was just at the point where my school had decided that I did not need special treatment, so I considered myself to be completely "NT" if you will until five years later when my mother told me about AS. I don't think I've ever been officially diagnosed with AS but I've lived fine with "autistic features" for 18 years. I wouldn't doubt they had me pinned down quite well at the time.

I was diagnosed with ADD at the age of 30..and place on medication...though the way I came about my diagnosis was so horribly difficult/yet simple/yet shoddy.....I first went to an ADD clinic...where they would not accept my insurance and wanted a ton of money. I threw a couple hundred dollars away on an hour-long interview with an unfriendly a**hole doctor who would not tell me anything...but gave me dozens of pages for myself, and friends and family to fill out which seemd to repeat the same questions over and over again...and told me I would have to come back for hours of tests, which would cost several hundred more dollars...

Then while I was filling out the forms...and feeling very grumbly...I was not going to have the money to take the battery of tests..and was in the process of writing an angry letter on the back of the 10 page form....Cooincidentally I was approached by an RN who told my that the clinic was a sham, and that they just wanted my money, and that I could go to a regular MD....so i did....The MD gave me a brief interview and told me it was his opinion that I indeed have ADD, but would need a second opinion, and ordered bloodwork to rule out other issues that could be causing the symptoms....

I ended up getting a second opinion from another MD, with the assistance of this RN friend, who drove me to the appointment, and did alot of the talking for me because i was so akward.
This MD seemed to take my word for it...possibly because I was accompanied by an RN...He started me on a low dose of Ritalin and also Buspar, and a medication for high blood pressure that I am glad I didn't fill (at the advice of the nurse..who's opinion was that my high blood pressure was the result of my constantly being under the stress of sensory overload)...

Anywhoo, the Ritalin was not strong enough..and at the next appointment i was prescribed 30mg of AdderallXR....which was way too strong....

Now I am rambling....though I suppose that the history of my diagnosis reveals how shoddy and unscientific it actually was...
Still it is the only diagnosis I have and I stick by it...