How were you diagnosed with AS?

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When I was diagnosed with AS last year, the doctor had me do some computer test to see how much I thought like a computer, I was 99% accurate, she couldn't believe it.

I had never heard of AS until then so I had a hard time accepting it but now I'm ok.

What I'm curious about is did anyone else here get a professional diagnosis with that being one of the methods? Of course there were other things involved during the testing but that was a huge indicator of AS.

I wish I remembered my diagnoses.

I stumbled across it on Wikipedia, then received confirmation from my docctor. Interestingly, he had known about it for years, and even discussed it with my parents, without ever putting in an official diagnosis. The same thing happened in middle school when I was sent in for suspected ADD. He basically said he wasn't going to diagnose me because I didn't need to be drugged. Nice guy, that one.

I'm 47 so my doc just diagnosed me with what most aspies my age are diagnosed with - social phobia and severe anxiety disorder. It wasn't until one of my friends granddaughter was diagnosed with it that I started looking into it. I'm definitly an aspie. I've taken some tests on the computer that also confirm it.

My psychologist got a strong impression that I had AS and suggested that I look it up (I had never heard of it before). Among the multitude of material I found on AS, was the wikipedia page on it, which explained everything I had always wondered about why I didn't fit with anyone's impression of me. Then I looked up my psychologist's name and her association with AS, just out of curiosity.

Decades ago when I was a small child, I was diagnosed with Autism/Childhood Schizophrenia by the Pediatrician.

Initially a friend of ours who is a psychiatrist suggested that I had AS and asked that I book an appointment with his office. There was a conversation with him for about an hour and then I did a multiple choice test produced for the Hungarian Ministry of Education to test High School kids. My score of 81/105 just confirmed his opinion and I now have an official diagnosis.

Ed Almos

My psychologist diagnoised me wid AS wen i was 11 at a special needs skool.

I worked for a psychiatrist who specializes in autism as his assistant. Turns out that while I was working for him, he noticed some AS traits in me. I had some psychological testing done for some unrelated issues and after he saw my IQ test he turned to me and said he was now convinced I had AS. It was then that I learned he suspected it all along, but never said anything (since I was his employee). It was when I stopped working for him and he saw my test results that I also found out that he was watching me (my mannerisms, how I relate to people, etc) while I worked for him. That's what I get for working for a psychiatrist!

I got a diagnosis of AS but was never prescribed anything. A diagnosis does not mean you need to be drugged! Later, when I was so depressed I was mentally dying, I wasn't even formally diagnosed with anything, but they prescribed antidepressants right away.


Droopy, your doc sounds like the kind of person who believes AS is a positive thing that is rare and puts you in a discriminated-against minority... he sounds like such a nice guy! Sounds like the kind of guy that knows AS is a reqirement for some things. Or am I totally wrong?

My parents suspected it when I was little, but I wasn't diagnosed until I proved incapable of acheiving independence. Then I had a weird brain scan and after discussing my past with my parents and I, the doctor diagnosed me. When I was younger I took lots of tests to see what was wrong with me, but it was slightly too early for there to be a diagnosis of AS, it hadn't been formalized into medical books yet. I have not heard of a test that compares your mind to a computer, it sounds facsinating. I hope it was fun, or at least not horrible.