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This is a pretty amusing thread.

OP, you firstly don't have an official ASD dx. Of course they're not going to mention ASD. In a lot of contexts, if you don't have something officially on paper, then you don't have it. Also, the research study etc. was based on GAD. You say on the one hand that you understood what you were signing up for, but on the other hand, you complain that they basically didn't give you an official dx of ASD. Well - if you can engage your brain for a bit and be logical, and take off your victim mentality, you entered a research study on GAD. If GAD is the only topic they were going to discuss, then that's all they were going to look for - expecting otherwise is foolhardy and if you were upset by what happened, you only have yourself to blame.

If you want official confirmation of ASD, go to a psychiatrist.

I think you THINK you know what the purpose of it was. I don't think you really do.



If the patient truly understood what a research study is, then the patient should also know it is never too late to decline further participation in a research study.



Because that is what you are whining about.



I think "the pain the patient endured" happened because the patient did not understand what the purpose of the study was. The report basically says you were demanding and uncooperative. You expected things to be a very specific way, and that was not the intention of the study. Therefore, that means you misunderstood.



They probably did not realize the patient was going to them for as ASD diagnosis. They probably thought the patient was going to participate in a specific anxiety-based therapy. Had they known your obvious intentions, they likely would not have allowed you to participate in the study, and then you could have protected yourself from this "pain".



This is just a continuous whining about your pain, but not a response to my comment. My comment had nothing to do with your unsuspected pain, but about you wanting a free ASD assessment out of it. I know it was free, I never disputed that (*I* do know what a research study is). What I said was, I think you were looking for a free ASD assessment out of this research study that does not deal with ASDs.



The patient is still misunderstanding, and the patient is yet unable to prove that he does understand properly since he is still going on about the same things.

I am trying to have sympathy, but yeah...I really don't. I think you were trying to get something out of this study that was completely "off-topic" for the research, and you are upset that you didn't get what you want. You are not only very difficult to deal with on here, you are also very difficult to deal with in person as the report indicates, so I would say--whether or not you do have an ASD--you are very stubborn and see things as your way or no way. You did not get what you wanted, and now you are emotionally distressed. I can't have too much sympathy for someone who goes to an anxiety-based study WITHOUT an ASD diagnosis, and comes out crying because he wasn't diagnosed with an ASD. It is absolutely absurd!

When I was 17 years old in high school, I saw a so-called psychologist who did not take seriously my father's violence. I thought of this psychologist as my friend.

It took me a long time to extricate myself from the situation. And it was only later that I realized how harmful the whole thing had been.