Autism Spectrum Disorder

[Edwardo Piet]

I had my final post-session for my autism yesterday. And I now have a brief summary of my symptoms to go along with my main assessment. I'll omit my address and also replace my real first name with "Hammy" but otherwise leave everything verbatim:

Dear Hammy,

The results from your Autism Assessment concluded that you meet criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder, due to:

A.      Persistent difficulties in social communication and social interaction across contexts and manifested by all three of the following:

1. Difficulties in social-emotional reciprocity.
2. Difficulties in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction.
3. Difficulties in developing and maintaining and understanding relationships.

B.     Restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities as manifested by two of the following:

1. Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects or speech.
2. Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualised patterns of verbal or nonverbal behaviour.
3. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are atypical in intensity or focus.
4. Hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment.

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And as I am alexithymic and struggle greatly with interoception here's a video on that as welll: