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Campin_Cat
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OMG, I've done / do almost everything you said you did----the straightening the picture thing, the commenting on the decor, the commenting when something in the room has changed, the asking someone to turn-down the music.... The only thing I don't / haven't done is the no eye-contact thing (I've actually stared people down while I was trying to bite my tongue to keep from saying "how STUPID can you BE?" LOL), and the taking my shoes off and sprawling on the furniture thing (I would NEVER do that!).
I totally agree with the others in that you tell stories, just GREAT!! I LOVE alot of detail, so that there's NO question in my mind!! You have a way of doing it, though, that doesn't make me BORED----it makes me INTERESTED!! !
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voleregard
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Thank you Voleregard. OVR is amazing. They are really opening up doors for me. I completely recommend them. If it were not for them I would never have been able to be diagnosed or able to afford the classes I want to take.
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"I'm bad and that's good. I'll never be good and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."
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I found OVR on the net. It says nothing about prices. Is it something, you can apply for? What would it cost to get diagnosed there if possible?
I´m not in USA myself, but ask on behalf of a friend, who suffers and has no access to diagnosis or other help.
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Femaline
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I´m not in USA myself, but ask on behalf of a friend, who suffers and has no access to diagnosis or other help.
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"I'm bad and that's good. I'll never be good and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."
Wreck It Ralph
But what immediately caught his eye was my behavior and speech patterns when I was in the waiting room.
The person who first evaluated me said he could tell right away too because of my extreme social naivete and childlike innocence when I interacted with other people in the room. And they were all strangers. I interacted very much like a little kid would. And as he got to know me better he mentioned things that I did not even realize I was doing like I he said that in our conversations I would talk about food by texture and not by taste which is very ASD like. I would also work in the same spot and clean my skis the same way every time and that five minute task would take me about 45 minutes to an hour, He also said that I would get a little stressed if the lights were turned on differently like if they had one set of lights off or something. He also said that in our conversations I would talk to him as if I did not realize he was actually working and it would be difficult for me to let him go from our conversations even though he was on the clock and had work to do. He said that all of these things were strong indicators of ASD. He also said many more things came out as he got to know me which were indicators but those were the ones that were apparent right away.
Thanks skibum, for the detailed answer.
I can definitely relate to some of those. Especially the music one; I was the patient from hell when it came to hospitals and music >_>.
At my meeting with the psychiatrist who diagnosed me, my mum was there. I tend to hide behind my mum anyway and did so even more. The psychiatrist began by trying to speak to me directly, but I crumbled under the pressure and started getting a bit agitated, so he switched his attention to my mum. Later on, I was able to speak a bit more. The room we were in was completely utilitarian, but a more interesting room will grab my attention; for example, as I was leaving a different room a couple of weeks ago, I noticed a row of psychology books and went over to take a further look - the psychologist noticed that. She said I was a "bookworm", even though I had told her I didn't have the concentration span for reading much anymore >_<.
Anyway, yeah, back to the autism psych. He didn't give me feedback about my behaviour and speech the way yours did, but to be fair I didn't give him a lot to feedback on; I was mostly withdrawn. He asked a lot of questions about my early childhood, my daily life, etc. and he summarised all the info given in a quite in-depth letter a few weeks later. Also, British docs seem inclined to keep their thoughts to themselves unless you specifically ask them - and even then, some of them remain pretty guarded. (This reticence worked badly against me with the Crohn's for years, because I was equally reticent and so never found out stuff I really should've known.)
The autism psych guy did say in his letter that he thought I "clearly" fufilled the criteria for ASD, so he didn't seem to have any doubts. I never thought I behaved "autistically" in public, but something my stoma nurse said to me bugged me a fair bit :-/ Basically, I told her I was going for an autism assessment - she knew me quite well by this point, having seen me regularly for a few months - and her first words were "I'm not surprised!". Tried asking her later by email what she meant, saying I wouldn't be offended by anything she said, but she 'diplomatically' backpedalled her way out it anyway... >.>
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