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I did it today. Actual legit assessment with a psychologist.
Still need to finish the at-home portions and wait a few weeks for the results.
Last year, at the behest of some people in my life, I looked around for casual tests. Found this community and embrace-autism. Did pretty much all of their tests and more leaned toward autism than not. I put off getting an actual assessment because I thought I knew myself, I thought I didn't have problems with it.
And now the doubts are surfacing. As I am against reviewing the literature on autism I'm wondering if I'll get diagnosed with social anxiety disorder instead. I'm trying to focus on the relief of having the question answered rather than anything else.
Maybe a helpful anecdote? I went to my last assessment appointment which was supposed to be the results and the assessor was like, "oh, I just have a few more questions..."
Fam, I thought I had failed my autism assessment and I was just a bad person. No, turns out I'm so autism they didn't even need to call my contacts to confirm 😭