What happens in an adult autism assessment?

Everyone on here seems to have a different experience. For some it was a single Zoom call, for others much more.

I had:

• a two hour interview taking my life history and my experiences that made me think I might be autistic
• a two hour IQ test
• the ADOS test (an hour or so)
• two interviews with people who know me (with me not present)
• about a dozen forms

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

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.

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?  

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?  

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