Thanks so much for taking the time to respond! I highly suspect it too and am lucky to have a second chance to be assessed within the next few months so the wait will at least not be too long! (-:

I kinda was just gonna ask a rando from online if anyone was willing! I guess the nature of that made me overthink things. (-: thanks for answering!

no clue! Was just checking before I decided to do it

I’ve heard some people don’t like people talking about the tests at all and for some reason my brain grouped the assessment with that information,,

It’s not though upon further reflection lol 😅

Thanks! I wasn’t sure if it was something people weren’t supposed to see for some reason?

I think that’s a big part of the looking for validation. (‘: I wish I could be someone who was satisfied just self-identifying as I think it’s valid! I don’t though, despite autism making so many parts of my life make sense. my care team (my psych has plenty of other neurodivergent patients) all think the place didn’t assess me properly and agree that it is v likely autism.

Even with meeting the diagnostic criteria and my assessment reading as autistic af frankly, I still am going through with the second assessment because I feel like for whatever reason my brain won’t be able to accept it fully without it? :-/ like I’ll feel like a fraud or something despite it literally making all the sense in the world lol

That’s why I specified only being interested in doing this with someone diagnosed (-: My assessment was also done professionally. thanks though!

Oh! Yeah I’m not looking to be like peer diagnosed at all! (-: It is definitely a more casual thing and I personally would honestly put more weight into it than my current assessment because I know Autistic women & femmes are no strangers to being overlooked. My assessors essentially said “you meet the diagnostic criteria for Autism / score high on all the things but because you experienced childhood trauma and can do things like flirt it could maybe just be the trauma”

It was largely unhelpful as I went there because I was struggling and wanted tools. I ended up annotating the things that were incorrect in my assessment (I also corrected the many grammatical errors which made me feel ???? because I feel like a professional document should not have that many) and they corrected some of the stuff but passed me along to another assessor for fresh eyes so now I have a “you probably have Autism but u hurt our CEO’s ego and have to wait longer because of it” situation going on. The other assessor did reach out and I’m in the process of that, it would just be helpful to talk to people who share the experience and also people who can help validate that experience because it so heavily has to do with the ways women & femme slip through the cracks despite presenting obviously.

Edit: my autistic traits also pre-date my trauma and this place seemed to be out-dated in their understanding of Autism which is a tale as old as time but is also something that does suck.