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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    1. I just had my one this week. I didn't have the same tests as you, but the second one I did, I had thought I told a decent story, but thinking back it was absolutely rubbish. What's frustrating is I can actually do stories, and good ones, but thinking about it, I need time and to be in the right head space. I can't do it when stressed, but this probably says a lot more than I think!
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    1. I just had my one this week. I didn't have the same tests as you, but the second one I did, I had thought I told a decent story, but thinking back it was absolutely rubbish. What's frustrating is I can actually do stories, and good ones, but thinking about it, I need time and to be in the right head space. I can't do it when stressed, but this probably says a lot more than I think!
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