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AndrewtheFiddler
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26 Sep 2015, 9:29 pm

I finally got my diagnosis. It's been a long journey to get this.



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26 Sep 2015, 9:39 pm

AndrewtheFiddler wrote:
I finally got my diagnosis. It's been a long journey to get this.

Congrats, happy for you. I'm going to go in for a ASD assessment in like 18 days. Did they send you a diagnostic report in the mail? If so, how long did it take to get to you?


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26 Sep 2015, 9:54 pm

It took about a month to get the report back.



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26 Sep 2015, 10:07 pm

I just got my diagnosis last month. The psychologist delivered the report in person. It took her six weeks because of her backlog.


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26 Sep 2015, 10:29 pm

AndrewtheFiddler wrote:
It took about a month to get the report back.

Dang, hope it does not take that long for my report to come back. Also how long was the report? Did they put your diagnosis on the top or how did that work? Sorry if I am being annyoing I just can't stop thinking about it lol


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27 Sep 2015, 2:22 am

brandonb1312 wrote:
AndrewtheFiddler wrote:
It took about a month to get the report back.

Dang, hope it does not take that long for my report to come back. Also how long was the report? Did they put your diagnosis on the top or how did that work? Sorry if I am being annyoing I just can't stop thinking about it lol

They tell you your result (that you were diagnosed/not diagnosed) on the day or the day after (did for me) but the report comes later.



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27 Sep 2015, 8:01 am

I was diagnosed on August 26, 2013. The 15 page diagnostic report arrived in November.


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27 Sep 2015, 8:42 am

It's good that you are now diagnosed, I don't know if congratulations is the right term though. Life definitely gets easier after being diagnosed, you know who you are now, and you can learn the boundaries in which to live your life.



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27 Sep 2015, 10:14 am

helloarchy wrote:
It's good that you are now diagnosed, I don't know if congratulations is the right term though. Life definitely gets easier after being diagnosed, you know who you are now, and you can learn the boundaries in which to live your life.

I said congrats just because of when he said it had been a long road to get there. As I can relate to that quite a bit.


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Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 127 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 82 of 200
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