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[ysobel]

Took the RAADS-R autism test, mostly for lulz.

I wish there were a "sometimes" option, not all-or-nothing, but.


Total:183
Language:11
Social relatedness:93
Sensory/motor:47
Circumscribed interests:32

Meaning of RAADS–R scores
Score Interpretation
25 You are not autistic.
50 Some autistic traits, but likely not autistic (yet some autistic people score as low as 44).
65 The minimum score at which autism is considered.
90 Stronger indications of autism, although non-autistics may score as high.
130 The mean score of autistic people; strong evidence for autism.
160 Very strong evidence for autism.
227 The maximum score autistic people acquired in Ritvo’s seminal paper on the RAADS–R.[9]
240 The maximum possible RAADS–R score.

Hmmmm ;)

Comments

[ysobel]

I hear you on not wanting autism on your official chart -- I don't either. With the adhd thing I was having huge levels of executive dysfunction and basically drowning and wanted to talk to my doctor about trialing meds to see if they helped (which she wouldn't do without a dx, and also she didn't believe in maintenance meds for adhd, just like "enough to help with a very specific short-term goal"), but autism has no equivalent -- for me it explains a lot of things but I wouldn't want change for myself and don't need accommodations (mostly relevant for school or work) -- and I don't need to hand medical people a weapon to depersonalize me further (yay ableism)

Anyway yes brains are weird! But also cool!

[blueraccoon]

It was really important to me to get the formal ADHD diagnosis, in part because I wanted meds and in part because I wanted concrete evidence I actually had it. My old psych didn't want to prescribe meds for it due to a variety of reasons but encouraged me to find a second opinion, so I did that and then that doc wanted me to do neuropsych testing to confirm I had ADHD because I'm also bipolar type 2 and it gets weird with the overlap. So I did that and the neuropsych was like "yeah, you definitely have ADHD combined type" and i cried in my car after getting the diagnosis because it was just so validating.

Actually getting meds took more work but I'm on them now. Mind, I'm on one I have to pay $75 a month for bc it's a brand name and my insurance won't cover it and the $75 is the manufacturer's coupon, but at least the pharmacy can get it in stock. As opposed to Adderall, which my insurrance covered but every pharmacy in the area was like "uh we dunno when we'll ever get it"