Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello,
I have booked for a referal for an adult autism assessment on the 25th of January this year.
If I do get the referal, I would like to prepare myself.
What happens during an adult autism assessment?
In regards to things I will be asked to do, or things that I will be asked to tell them.
Thank-you,
Jayde.
Everyone on here seems to have a different experience. For some it was a single Zoom call, for others much more.
I had:
Amerantin (former member) said:a two hour interview taking my life history and my experiences that made me think I might be autistic
I know im not part of this but Are those always like back and forth conversation type interviews? What about people who struggle to explain things verbally, especially with delayed processing in social situations
This was something that worried me a lot because my parents are gone.
In the end they let me use a cousin and a co-worker I’ve know for a long time. I think they would have let me go through without those people. They said it’s a very common problem.
I filled in the parent form myself based on what I could remember and that seemed to be fine
What happens if you don’t quite have parental/ or friends support. I.e my case where I have no emotions towards my family I don’t particularly care for them and I never tell them anything about me. They don’t even know I was diagnosed with depression/ anxiety, they don’t know about attempted unalivings or attempted running away etc etc (low-key want to keep it that way). I don’t have friends close enough as I’m still always heavily “masked” around them and each friend know me with different traits. One knows chocolate gives me a headache/ migraine one doesn’t etc etc. and I moved here from a different country when I was 7 so a lot of childhood friends and early childhood teachers are all back there.
Eessentially my question is can you still get through the assessment by yourself?
There were forms for your parents to fill in about how you were as a young child and the other forms would have given you the opportunity to list your other problems.
So they would see the communication difficulty but then would they have an alternative way to give information about life experiences? Other than the people who know you interviews
The initial interview would also obviously be a chance for the psychologist to witness / observe any difficulties too.
The ADOS test is a standard test (in the UK anyway) to assess things including how you interact with people. It’s usually done by a speech and language therapist. It’s a very weird experience.
The forms I had to fill in would have covered all of that anyway and the other people they interviewed would have been able to tell them about such problems.