Yes, Iīve thought like this many times and it felt nice someone has this perspective as you do. As AS for example gives symptom like having harder to meet with people for example, of course that and other symptoms could be put together and then you claim, as my T did, that you perhaps have AS.
She also know Iīve been seeing a T for several months before I met with her and I think that should make her much more careful about what she says. I hadnīt question anything if Iīd seen her for several months and she felt she couldnīt get through.
Because thatīs what itīs mostly about. I would say a lot of people have difficulties in showing emotions to strangers in the beginning so I think her behaviour and statement is wreckless.
To hear something like this of course made me worried even if I donīt give much for that kind of statement based on only two sessions.
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Originally Posted by Daisymay
As someone married to a man with a diagnosis of AS (Asperger's SYndrome) and one of our children also diagnosed, I would have thought that if this is something you really do have then some characteristics/symptoms of it would have been spotted before now. Your parents, teachers etc would have noticed something. But I do also know that girls and woman who are mildly on the spectrum can be very good at masking AS characteristics - I believe it is sometimes harder to spot in girls. I know of two women whose T's suspected they had AS but a later diagnostic test by a properly trained professional proved they did not.
There are a lot of reasons why someone (anyone) might show signs that are common signs of having AS. For that reason only properly trained professionals can make a real diagnosis. Your T obviously noticed something that might indicate AS - but not necessarily. You could ask her what it was that made her say that?
If, where you are, means you need a diagnosis for therapy (different here in the UK) then make sure the person doing the diagnostic test is correctly trained and qualified to do so.
Don't 'label' yourself with anything. You're uniquely you whether you have a diagnosis for AS or anything else for that matter - or not.
Take care.
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