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What is the autism assessment like?

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So I'm 15 years old and in a few weeks I will have an assessment to see if I have autism or not. I'm not really bothered if I have it or not since I don't really know much about it, but it would be nice to know since I've been on a "waiting list" for like 6 months. 

So my question is this, what is the assessment like? I have asked my parents and councillor, but they didn't really know. I also asked the doctor I saw, but she just said they will just ask you and your mum some questions, I'm not sure if that's enough infomation. Have any of you ever had an assessment, if so what was it like? Are they all the same, or are they different depending on the person. I would just want to know what they would do and what they would ask me. I'm a little nervous, I'm also slightly curious too.

Thanks. Tongue Out

  • Hi. I've had my assessement, and it went something like this...

    I was sent some questionaires, one of which was for another family member, filled them in and sent them back. I felt pretty much like you do before I went, but they sent me a map and a picture of the building I was going to, which I found enormously helpful as I don't like going to new places 'blind'. The actual assessement was an unpressurised interview that lasted for a couple of hours. As far as I was concerned, we just talked about stuff. He refered to the questionaires before I went (he told me) but didn't refer to them during our time together, he just asked me about all sorts of things, and I answered as best I could. Although quite a lot of his questions were ambiguous, I just figured that if I didn't answer the question he asked, he would ask again in a different way, but I couldn't tell you whether or not he did.

    At the end he told me that his assessement was 'severe type 1 ASD' which used to be called 'asperger syndrome/asperger's/high functioning autism' etc etc. He wrote his findings to my GP, copied to me. That was it.

    I've had more help and support through my newly discovered community on here than from anywhere else, and I'm still trying to make some sense of it all. Naturaly, other AS people have far more understanding and insight into the condition, and just knowing that the things that happen to me are common experiences means that I don't feel much better about them, but I no longer feel alone with them, and that's more comfort to me than I can express.

    Hope that helps.