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My suspicions that EEG is merely used to rule out epilepsy/other conditions during assessment has proved to be true. I have no history of seizures of any kind (not any that anyone has ever noticed, that is) so I am really "confirmed". Yay!

I'd like to make a note of the psychologist having misunderstood some of the parts I said during our conversation. The letter says I've had particular problems with friends in high school, where it should be elementary and middle school, and that I have been married for five years. As I type this up, I'll fix those mistakes, writing the correct information in brackets. [name, title, address, phone] [to GP] [15.02.2008] Regarding assessment at psychiatric clinic [name] [born: date] [name]… Continue

The letter from the psychologist came today. I can translate it later.

Mercurygrrl Wrote: Thank you! I don't really need help - the only thing they can give me is extra time during exams (and I generally only use half of the alloted time due to writing extremely fast - I have to, if not I lose my train of thought) Tongue So, at the moment I don't see the need for a piece of paper telling me what I already know and what he confirmed. Reply from twat: You are lucky. You will never know what it's like to have the kind of executive dysfunction/attentional problems I h… Continue

I was asked if I could write a post on how the interview was conducted, and after I did so for a Norwegian autism-board, I thought I'd translate it. He started by asking me why, if I've got Asperger's, it was picked up on during my childhood. As I told him, I was a quiet child, I did not act out in any way, and I did what I was told to do (schoolwork, etc). We had children in my class who acted out a lot, but these kinds had/got ADHD-diagnosis. As a quiet girl, I didn't get much attention from… Continue