Upcoming psychologist appointment

[u/castiel4life]

Hello everyoneeee! For context I am 17F almost 18 and am diagnosed with ADHD.

I align with a lot of autism symptoms that I’ve seen and traits and stuff like that. I did a lot of things as a child (and now) that my parents didn’t realise were (possibly) autism and we’re now learning that I didn’t have tantrums, I had meltdowns and shutdowns.

I have a psychologist appointment next month and I’m very nervous about it. When I saw a psychologist (different one) for an adhd assessment, she told me I wasn’t struggling enough to have adhd and that broke me a lot. Thankfully now I am diagnosed but I don’t know what I would do if that were to happen again.

This psychologist is not doing a straight up assessment since my parents and that other psychologist don’t think I have autism (heavily masking adhd so they don’t notice anything I actually do). I want to write down a bunch of stuff, like traits and symptoms and behaviours, that are common for autistic people and compare them to what I do/experience.

I tend to shutdown and forget things or chicken out during appointments and I believe if I write everything down, I’ll be able to prove to someone finally that I am different and hopefully get the help and diagnoses I need.

Could some people please give me some common traits/symptoms/behaviours or even some not so common ones? Google is unhelpful and giving me the list of “prepubescent little boys” type of symptoms.

THANK U IN ADVANCE xxxxxxx

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If You Google ASD DSM V You would find the real list of symptoms

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