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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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  • 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

  • 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. 

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