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Autism assessment

NAS76963

I’m going through an autism assessment i’ve done the first part and they’ve said I qualify for the second I don’t get what that means? 

They sent me a list of stuff i need a piece of paper a pencil a coat hanger a cloth and string. I looked up why i need these and it says i have to make story out of them. I’m worrying about it so much I can’t make stories up I can’t read stories properly like doing voices for stuff that’s not even real like a talking dog dogs don’t talk and they don’t live in castles. 

I have no parents or family so i have no one to do that part of the assessment for me. 

Should i just cancel the next bit of the assessment? I’ve tried to think of a story with these things in front of me but I can’t these things don’t do anything we use them. All i think of is i use the pencil to draw on the paper and i use the coat hanger for clothes but that’s not a story. 

Then I saw you get a picture book and tell the story i can’t do this either I can’t do it with my daughter when she brought her reading book home her teacher called me in to school and told me that she expected me to read with her when i said there’s nothing to read there’s no words she told me it’s quite simple use your imagination and make a story up it’s not hard… but it is 
I don’t know what to do. 

  • in reply to Caelus

    Yeah it seems very unnecessary. I had a similar thing in my assessment but I just had pictures of the items.

  • It’s like an eye test where either you can see the letters or not, or they are a bit fuzzy. The assessor will decide what your answers mean just as the optician uses your ability to read the letters to decide what glasses you need. 

  • in reply to Ben

    Thank you for your reply… I’m going to try so what they ask of me and if I can’t then i’ll just tell them. I was worried you have to do these things or they don’t do the assessment which is why i thought about cancelling it so someone els could have their assessment quicker. 

  • in reply to Caelus

    I’m anxious and worrying they’ve taken 4 months for this second part and 4 months i’ve struggled to understand why they want me to have these things. Having seen different threads on here and elsewhere saying why and mentioning reading a picture book it’s made my anxiety worst. 

  • in reply to GuybrushThreepwood

    Thank you for your reply… I just thought i’d be wasting their time If i can’t do the assessment. It’s taken 4 months between assessments so my Anxiety is at an all time high. I can’t cope not knowing what I’m doing or what’s going to happen. 

  • in reply to Caelus

    me personally, i would refuse to bring in those items because id feel stupid bringing those items in and just tell them to imagine we have them for the purpose of it as the items being there matters not to a telling of a story anyway. id feel daft bringing random junk items out somewhere with me.

  • NAS76963 said:
    Should i just cancel the next bit of the assessment? I’ve tried to think of a story with these things in front of me but I can’t these things don’t do anything we use them.

    and? ..... why not tell them that? ... be yourself... be honest and truthful, tell them what you told us, tell them its stupid and you cant make a story out of them, perhaps that is the logical answer they seek? perhaps a inability to make a stupid forced story is what they are looking for? there is no right or wrong answer, there is only your own mind and what it comes up with or what it doesnt, or whether it can or cant or whether you look on it as daft or not... it isnt a test of right or wrong, it is just a assessment to see what your mind is like, there is no right or wrong, there is just you...

  • Hi there,

    Please don't give up.

    If they ask you to write a story and you just can't do it - then tell them, as that is the truth. There is no point in being anything other then truthful.  The fact that you just  can't write a story tells them something about you, and that is important.  If they ask you why, then tell them what you've told us, after all, that is the truth.

    My assessment was the best thing I have ever done, and I hope you look back on yours in the same way one day.

    Just be honest.

    I hope it goes well,

    Ben

  • All autistics are individuals, with individual traits and abilities. If you cannot make stories up, you will just seem more autistic than if you could, because a 'social imagination' is something autistics are supposed to lack. So a big autistic tick for you there!

    I have a good social imagination, I have started several novels, and I'm good at plot and character creation. However, I still got an autism diagnosis, because, as I said, autistics are different from each other. You do not need to have every autistic trait that has been identified in order to be diagnosed, just enough of them. I have a good social imagination, which is not very autistic, but I feel like curling up and dying if I touch nylon - a sensory problem, which is autistic. I can't follow conversations if there is background noise, I get very nervous in meetings with more than a few people and I have to consciously make eye-contact, which are all very autistic traits again.

  • I wouldn’t cancel, the fact that you’re struggling to come up with something is likely to be just as important to the assessors as analysing a story. If you cancel this part you probably risk them cancelling the whole assessment entirely if you don’t want to do it at all rather than cancelling to postpone. I really struggle as well with stories, there might be some very slight variations of voice when I read my daughter stories but I’m absolutely useless at making them up