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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only people that seem to care are the parents of kids who have more difficult symptoms/experiences. [/quote]

I’m not sure that’s quite true. I got diagnosed recently as an adult… I’m very high functioning (have a doctorate, high paying career, etc) but have struggled socially forever and sought a diagnosis after pretty much realizing it for myself a few years back. My mother refuse to accept I have autism because her vision of autism is the very high needs, low functioning type… [/quote]

What symptoms did/do you have?

I’m asking because I believe my 18yo DD might be on the spectrum. She’s never really completely fit in with other girls her age. She’d try and like the same things but it wouldn’t come natural to her, at 13/14 when other girls were experimenting with makeup/fashion, she felt too young and wasn’t as interested, and now regularly says she still feels 12 and can’t imagine having the independence to do adult things like drive, work, etc.[/quote]

I’m fiercely independent so not like your daughter in that way. I have always, always been perceived as weird by the people around me and was severely bullied pretty much my whole life. In high school I had a girl pretty much tell me to my face that she didn’t want me to come to a social gathering because I was weird. I never understood social cues and would end up trying to mimic things I saw on tv shows to try to fit in which just made me weirder. In my adult life I don’t have many friends. I am married (my husband is also neurodivergent and accepts my weirdness). I also get really easily frustrated at things. Oh and I never realize how loud I am especially when I get excited about what I’m talking about… my husband always has to shush me, lol.

But as I said besides socially I’m prettt successful… I’ve always been smart and excelled academically and in my career. Professionally I’m able to mask and fake my way through being collegial and I supervise a ton of folks who have all raved about me as a manager, so it doesn’t manifest there… [/quote]

If how you described yourself is autism, then that tent is pretty big.[/quote]

That sounds exactly like what Level 1 ASD is.
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It really does not. even level 1 is supposed to be apparent across multiple domains (so you wouldn’t expect to just not be evident at work) and cause clinically significant impairment. [/quote]

Please tell me what makes you qualified to be the arbiter of who is impaired enough to be deemed autistic or not… why are you so concerned? [/quote]

The blatant ignorance people have about this is crazy. [/quote]

Huh. How about ask any group of practicing psychiatrists and PhD psychologists whether they think autism (and ADHD for that matter) is overdiagnosed. I don’t mean that one grifter making their career out of autism being everywhere. I mean the profession as a whole. It is almost universally understood now that the DSM 5 revisions plus social media lead to a huge uptick of overdiagnosis and adults convinced that they have ADHD or autism who actually have other issues they don’t want to acknowledge. [/quote]

I thought Psychologists and Psychiatrists wrote the DSM[/quote]

Yep. By committee of mainly academics. The clinical practicioners feel differently. [/quote]

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