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How to be diagnosed as Aspergers/Dyspraxia as an Adult

  • 31-01-2013 12:47PM
    #1
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    I'm unsure as this counts as medical advice, apologies if it does.

    As a small child, my mother was able to diagnose me as having Dyspraxia - she had some experience studying this and able to do it. However, as an adult, I would like to try and be diagnosed professionally, if at all possible.

    Does anyone know how I would go about doing this? I'm living in Dublin - I know it's supposed to be somewhat harder to do as an adult, rather than a child, or so I've been told.

    The reason this has come to my attention now is the recent thread on Aspergers in After Hours, in which people posted links to tests for these things - http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php - which I got:
    Your Aspie score: 174 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 47 of 200
    You are very likely an Aspie

    and
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html, in which I got 33.

    Guess the reason I would like to know is that it would make me feel better about the way I am/what I do and it's not just me being stupid, if that makes sense?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    OP,

    Your first port of call is your GP to ask for a referral to get a proper diagnosis.

    You might get some more useful information on sites like THIS one rather than online tests.

    All the best. :cool:


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