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17 Jan 2011, 2:46 am

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Will be going for a diagnostic assessment soon and the thing that baffles me most is - why is it that sensory overload or sensory issues or executive dysfunction- what seem to be pretty big issue for most auties/aspies - aren't covered by the diagnositic criteria - or are they?

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also, does 'stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms' = what everyone refers to as stimming?
such that, anything that's like stress relieving sort of counts - chewing things like pens would that be an example?

3.
Does anyone have an example for 'apparently inflexibile adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals'?

4.
Is perseveration itself enough to class as 'encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity or focus'?

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17 Jan 2011, 3:02 am

1. Most of the diagnostic criteria are focussed towards diagnosis in infants or young children. Later adaptations to the overwhelming stresses of being in a world that doesn't fit are secondary.

2. As above. Some of us are smart enough to learn to repress our repetitive behaviours over time. The stress peaks higher, but we bite down on that too.

3. Yes. But not in public.

4. This one's a bit in the hands of the diagnostician. They have more experience with what's normal than we do. Everything I do feels pretty normal to me.



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17 Jan 2011, 5:40 am

1. It will be in the newly updated criteria. It really should be because many people on the spectrum have it. There is a seperate disorder called Sensory Processing Disorder.

2. Anything that calms down stress is a stim.

3. To my understanding nonfunctional routines is doing the same things everyday in order that you don't necessarily need to do in order. Although sometimes this can be mild like wearing the same clothes or eating the same food.

4. Yes.


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