Stressed about possible ADOS-2 results

Hi. I recently completed my assessment, but I'm finding myself pretty stressed while waiting for the results, which will take another few weeks. My main point of worry is the two story tasks in the assessment, namely the frog book and telling a story with the five objects. For the frog book I just basically described what was happening on the page - Frogs are flying / floating, frogs are outside a house etc... I did not realise I was supposed to be telling a detailed story or even that there was a story, it just all seemed like a bunch of random confusing images to me. For the five objects I made a basic connection with two of them - Man driving a car, but the other objects confused me until I finally linked a third object, but I had to pass on the last two. My worry is that reading a lot of the other responses here and elsewhere, it seems that a lot of people were able to come up with elaborate stories for both parts of the test and still get an autism diagnosis. I guess I'm just stressed that I somehow messed up the test as I've been putting off getting tested and actually talking about this for years and years. Does anyone have any similar experience and still received an autism diagnosis?

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  • I had thought I might be borderline as to whether I was autistic or not, but the report I got back said otherwise.

    I couldn't think of an abstract use of the five objects as the example given had and so made up a story using the actual objects in a story.

    In the end when I got the report there was only one criteria I didn't meet and that was repetitive and stereotyped motor movement (I'd forgotten that I often rock one of my feet from side to side as if to music even if no music is playing), but as there were seven criteria in that section and I met six of them it made no difference to the diagnosis.

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  • I had thought I might be borderline as to whether I was autistic or not, but the report I got back said otherwise.

    I couldn't think of an abstract use of the five objects as the example given had and so made up a story using the actual objects in a story.

    In the end when I got the report there was only one criteria I didn't meet and that was repetitive and stereotyped motor movement (I'd forgotten that I often rock one of my feet from side to side as if to music even if no music is playing), but as there were seven criteria in that section and I met six of them it made no difference to the diagnosis.

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