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Anyone got a recommendation for a place that does testing for a possible adult autism diagnosis? Have always felt there was something different about me and struggled to connect with people and make and keep friendships and keen to know if the cause is in fact something like autism.
Thanks I did it and scored 159 so i think maybe a proper diagnoses is in order
Haven’t done that before. I score high in the Social Relatedness section, relatively low elsewhere. Total 96. I don’t consider myself autistic or as having Asperger’s, but do believe I’m further towards that side of the spectrum than most.
I’m similar, I got 85, mostly in the social relatedness section. I know I have abysmal social skills, so that’s unsurprising though I actually thought I may be higher on the scale, some questions were iffy as to how to answer.
Curiosity gave in and I had a go, apparently I score 176 on the test. That seems really high, but then I often gave answers I wasn’t 100% on because I was somewhere in between.
I know that I score in the “might have autism might not have it” area, but that’s because ADHD and autism are cousins (which funnily enough I have ADHD and my cousin has autism) so often a lot of the symptoms will overlap, and also trauma can manifest itself in ways that are similar to both ADHD and autism.
