Published on 12, July, 2020
I recently went through the ADOS module 4 autism assessment and am wondering what they were looking for. It involved some story telling (around pictures of flying frogs and some objects to bring in to another story), looking at and talking about a kind of child's map and explaining how to brush your teeth. The thing is, I'm 55 and can, I think do these things rather well. I'm perfectly used to making up bedtime stories to children and explaining everyday tasks. I also have a great deal of experience of masking and surviving in the workplace and I'm fairly sure my responses to these questions and tasks would have look at whole lot more autistic when I was in my teens before I developed a whole rake of coping strategies. I'm the same person, however. Can I be confident that the assessment result can be reliable?
The flying frogs!!! I remember that at my assessment.
Did they also ask you to do a jigsaw made from regular rubber pieces and then refuse to give you all the pieces to try to get you to have a meltdown?
At the very start of the assessment they warned me that the exercises were aimed at young children. And they would adjust the interpretation to take into account that I was an adult.
I was wondering whether the missing pieces were part of the test! I just said there weren't enough pieces, and she said "whoops!" or something to that effect. I turned over the bag and said they were there and she dumped them out for me.I think with the frogs they wanted us to explain emotions or something (I can't say for sure, haven't gotten my results back yet). But she just said describe the story so I described what was happening on the page, which was mostly just frogs flying around. I did point out that the pigs at the end were silly. She said it was probably based on "when pigs fly." I said it was still silly. I felt like it should have been a similar animal or theme, though I couldn't articulate that at the time. Like turtles flying on logs would have worked for me.