Second guessing-par for the course?

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Struggling not to second guess a forthcoming assessment(February) and full on catastrophising. Is this par for the course, especially for those of us with little info about our early years(In my case 88 year old father who's admitted his memories of my early years ,aged 1-4, are very patchy). It seems so much is dependent on meeting the early age criteria, but what if you have little to nothing to support that ? Is absence of proof automatically taken as proof of absence ?

I'm still second guessing




My personal input was enough , they had the option to contact my parents but didn't which was a surprise.



I doubt it.

I took the official several day test, and also did it late in life a couple of years ago at about your age.

Both of my parents were long gone . Only had my sister and my girlfriend (who knew me for many years, but didn't know me as a toddler) to be interviewed (both were happy to be interviewed, and the doc told me that he was pleased with how "forthcoming" they both were. I guess they both talked his ear off about how weird I am).

Also, when I take that online test everyone here seems to take I only get ambiguous results (like "100 autistic, and 100 NT, ergo we cant tell which thing you are"), and not a strong autistic score.

And yet I was officially diagnosed with aspergers.

So don't worry about it.

My test was an interview / questionnaire and is sometimes done over 2-3 days , I just pushed through it and got it done in a day ( a few smoko's ) , I didn't want to go back

It was not an unpleasant experience for me. Just taking different tests. Playing with blocks. Staring at pictures. The doc asked me a battery of IQ questions that included the question "how long does it take light to travel from the sun to the Earth?". Without hesitation I blurted out "eight minutes". He looked at me stunned, and then told me "in all of the years I have been conducting this test you are the first person to ever answer that question!". So that kinda made me feel good.

My anxiety goes through the roof in clinical settings ( to be precise it starts days before and reaches a crescendo on the day). I knew the answer was around 8 minutes but remembering it in that setting probably wouldn't of happened. I had no picture or block tests , no IQ questions ( nothing that resembled one anyway ).

The shrink who tested me was a pleasant middle aged black guy with a very sweet pleasant (indeed slightly gay) demeanor. Very non threatening. And he purposely set up his office with warm looking over stuffed old fashioned furniture to look like your grandma's house (to "look homey" he told me). Actually a good idea the more I think about it now. Definitely not the typical "clinical" look.

I have had a "aspie special interest" in the planets since the first grade and have been able to do the math in my head since childhood to figure out, and remind myself that it would take light about five hundred seconds to get from the Sun to the Earth.