psychiatrist looked at the neuropsychologic evaluation results of autism+adhd and was not convinced. not that there isn’t anything going on, but he thinks my case isn’t as conclusive as the results claim it to be and i’m still open to be diagnosed with maybe other kind of personality disorder (perhaps ocd). he’s not discarding autism either, he’s just adding other possibilities
(he’s pretty sure about the adhd, though)
not sure what to think of it, and also not sure if i should stay here
i got passed a quick intelligence test by the evaluator during the assessment and the result was high intelligence. not sure if that’s worth anything
anyway, i’m not seeing how my “intelligence” would interfere with the tests exactly. it’s not like there are right or wrong answers (unless i was specifically trying to fake a diagnosis, which i’m not)
i’ll look for an autism/adhd specialist in my area for me an my wife, who also got recently diagnosed. thanks for the tip
high intelligence can and will make it harder to detect learning difficulties & mask life struggles. Because despite the genetic learning disadvantage of adhd/autism, things get averaged out by being smart. You can also find coping strategies easier and just figure things out on your own
also adhd evaluations always look for signs during childhood, and if you are smart enough of a kid you won’t struggle in school despite not being able to focus on regular learning like everyone else - the consistency of symptoms is pretty much half the diagnosis and having those symptoms be invisible to everyone but you complicates things
most tests (apart from self evalutations) don’t really test for things like regular life struggles, and if you only recently started being able to see your symptoms (that were previously masked by high intelligence, and only now you realised something was off about it all) it could lead psychologists/psychiatrists to belive it’s something else - like anxiety or depression (both of which can also be caused by adhd so that makes stuff even more annoying)
if the sentence “oh you have so much potential, if only you applied yourself” has been repeated in your childhood as if on a loop, and now makes you want to cry and/or smash things, you’re probably like me - and the above is how my diagnosis went
…fuck
i feel ya, believe me, i do. best of luck!
Second this.
Intelligence can allow a person to mask to such a degree that it becomes invisible to a professional