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I am currently getting diagnosed by some dude who is not a pschye or a doctor!

He appears to be of the opinion that I can't have aspergers or autism as I have had friends as a child and adult at school etc!

If aspergers/autism is hereidtary then where is all the children coming from with it, because they must have go it from their aspie/autistic parents who must have been able to form relationships?

Good, logical question.

My parents were college professors. My mother was a die-hard introvert with virtually no social life or friends, a bookworm who ignored my brother and I most of the time to read. My father was the spacy, "absent minded professor" type who said he'd love to be a hermit. My mother was highly sensitive to everything.. noises, lights, anything! We traveled a long way to see the World's Fair and had to leave in 1 hour because my mom was so sensorily over-stimulated. She hated everything and everything got on her nerves.

Aspies DO form relationships, even ones who don't know they are aspies.

A dx by an AS specialist has really been beneficial to me.
May i suggest you go and find someone who actually knows the ins and outs of ASD's and take if from there?

You really need to see a specialist.
AS people do form relationships. We just do.
But the quality and type of relating we do is sometimes a litte unique or out of the ordinary or a little "novel," shall we say.

It may well be worth your while posting a thread here in the general discussion section, asking if anyone knows of any AS specialists in your area or region.

Whitetiger has a definite point! I could say similar things about my parents.

Have to agree with this.
I'm sure that there are lots of currently unidentified people like this.

If you don't know that you supposedly "can't" form relationships, but still want to, you're going to keep on trying even if you are "hopeless" at it, have poor reciprocity or are genuinely "none the wiser"...
You just assume you have to because you see everyone else doing it and/or start to feel lonely and have to force yourself to do it. Either that or someone else tries to force/cajole you into it because they think you're lonely and want to help.

Another point, he says that he is only interested on fixations, things you like doing like psinning and flapping, but not things that annoy you, like noises, smells etc, he did say this should be included in the diagnosis but it isn't here in Glasgow.

It appears to me their definition of autism is too narrow and more based on the extreme and what can be readily seen by the observer!

Is the people in Ruchill who're doing your diagnosis? What are their qualifications exactly?

I'm in Glasgow, and my 7 year old son is being assessed by Community Autism Team just now. It involves assessment, testing and observation by Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologist with input from myself and his teachers.

I've been asked a very wide range of questions about my son, and the obvious flapping, headbanging and so on are only part of the assessment process.

some of the best specialists in AS believe sensory problems should be included in new diagnostic criteria.

i'd get the heck away from the person you are seeing and find someone else in Glasgow who knows a thing or two about AS.

My psychologist who is an AS specialist wanted very much to know about my sensory problems.
good luck.

thx for all the replies.

I'm seeing a Chris Cole, based in Drumchapel health care centre, I'm due back for two two hour assessments in the Drum, I had an hour and a half session mostly Qs and I did a questionaire, I scored 25, he said 30 and above shows aspie traits, but I get confused when answering these Qs as they overlap a lot! myabe I should just tick all the extreme ones?

Why would you participate in such a farce?
If you describe his opinion correctly, then I can only reiterate my earlier question as to why you would participate in what appears to be a farce.

Er, no. Even the most simple mode of inheritance facilitates the inheritance of traits in off-spring that are not manifested in the phenotype of the parents.

i think it goes without saying that one should answer the questions as honestly as possible.
i agree with pandd also.
and marcia has given you a Glasgow lead so run with it. They will either be able to dx you or will direct you to a specialist who works with adults.

If he has no professional qualifications what is his "diagnosis" worth?

ruveyn

Yeah. We can form relationships. Some of them last astonishingly long.

Sometimes, they're even mutually beneficial, although I don't have access to a lot of stats. After all, if you don't know there's anything wrong, you just have to assume that everything's OK, don't you?

I mean, if there's a niche to be populated, an aspie can do it as well as anyone else can. We do survival, unless we're confused by alien concepts like diagnosis.

When he said that aspergers have no friends he
revealed his ignorance.

Is he a experienced specialist?