Question about the ADOS

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So, I took the adult version of the ADOS two weeks ago and wondered is there is significance in how I thought during two parts of it.

I was given a picture book and needed to "tell the story," which I could not do. I was able to describe details of the pictures and point out inconsistencies and other fine details. I pointed out details the Dr. had not realized.

I was given 5 small and unrelated items to form a story out of. To this I created a really strange story using all 5 items with no problem.

What might this mean? I was totally shocked at the first one. I read compulsively and on several subjects. Any thoughts, or experiences to share?

I had that same test and I just flatly told them exactly what happened in the book
"the frogs flew on, and on, and on, and on, and on, they landed the end"

I wish I'd done better.

I think it tells them something specific. It's not a better / worse sort of thing. A person relates to it and they get insight about how a person's brain works. No one fails! Yay! I've failed a lot of things though.

I wondered what they were actually trying to gauge in a person's thinking.

I noticed in the other threads about the ADOS that no one really talks about the results much, or how the test actually works. Also, there is effectivly nothing online to read either. It looks like there is some sort of blackout of information. Has someone told patients not to discuss the test? Just wondering.

Other threads have gone into more detail here. The thing about the test is you can talk about what you were asked to do, but it's harder to explain all the things they were observing at the time (or what you were observed doing on video later).

The tests seem to be about social imagination: "Try to make a story from these pictures" and "try to tell a story using these objects." I believe the Sally-Anne test (another test of social imagination) is also used.

I'll reframe my question:

Can anyone explain the significance behind my descriptive analysis of the first task and any significance in the fact that I was able to actually create a story in the second task?

What would it mean if these responses to the tasks were reversed instead?

I'm assuming a number of people here have taken this test, therefore, it seems reasonable that if a person was labled "Autistic" and they had responded in some particular way, it would be correspondant to one of the ways in which the test could be answered; if labled in some other fashion, did it correspond with some other particular way of having responded to the above mentioned tests?

My guess is it's an order effect. Trying and failing to come up with a story for the first one kind of 'primed the pump' for you to come up with a story to the second one.

More plainly stated:

How did you answer these two tasks, and are you, or are you not, described as Autistic in some way?

Never had the ADOS (the guy who diagnosed me did it just based on chatting with me and Mom a bit) but my guess is I'd have easily come up with stories for both of them, given that I'm an aspiring author and have relatively little difficulty with 'free-writes' in my creative writing class.

(On a tangent, I was really happy with one of the essay questions on my personality psychology midterm two days ago. They gave me a picture from the Thematic Apperception Test - a projective test where you make up a story from a picture - and asked me to write it as if I had a certain personality type they'd discussed in class. That was really fun.)