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Autism assessment

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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. 

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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