Don't talk about unrelated things

Unknown said:

Why would you talk about something else if that's the reason you are going?!

Because the psychologists ask me to tell them about an incident "explain what happend/where did this happen?"  but then that incident has lots of other factors and details, and then you have to mention all of them incase the first one wasn't the most important. Or I remember a better example of X, Y, and Z happening and not mentioning it could mean vital details get missed.
Or you aren't sure if it does fall under the scope of autism. In fact why are we expected to know what specifically to talk about to tell the psych what they need to hear? They are the Psych if they are any good at their job diagnosing people they should be able to tell from what we say as we talk about a whole range of stuff. I never said in my assessment "I have autism" for the psychologist to just go "ok" lol. I talked about stuff that happened to me and how I felt about it before and after, and the psychologist decided whether or not that met critera for autism.

TBH that NHS "how to get diagnosed" seems a bit on the nose. Because an NT could be mistaken for autistic if they've been instructed to speak about just one thing giving the false appearance of monotropic focus. And then that "diagnosis" would be incorrect based on bias misinformation. I don't normally say this about the NHS but that is some of the worst advice I think I've seen them give in recent years.

Unknown said:

Why would you talk about something else if that's the reason you are going?!

Because the psychologists ask me to tell them about an incident "explain what happend/where did this happen?"  but then that incident has lots of other factors and details, and then you have to mention all of them incase the first one wasn't the most important. Or I remember a better example of X, Y, and Z happening and not mentioning it could mean vital details get missed.
Or you aren't sure if it does fall under the scope of autism. In fact why are we expected to know what specifically to talk about to tell the psych what they need to hear? They are the Psych if they are any good at their job diagnosing people they should be able to tell from what we say as we talk about a whole range of stuff. I never said in my assessment "I have autism" for the psychologist to just go "ok" lol. I talked about stuff that happened to me and how I felt about it before and after, and the psychologist decided whether or not that met critera for autism.

TBH that NHS "how to get diagnosed" seems a bit on the nose. Because an NT could be mistaken for autistic if they've been instructed to speak about just one thing giving the false appearance of monotropic focus. And then that "diagnosis" would be incorrect based on bias misinformation. I don't normally say this about the NHS but that is some of the worst advice I think I've seen them give in recent years.

I think even on the website the language isn't entirely accurate. There is a difference between assessment and diagnosis.