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09 Jan 2011, 2:09 am

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It's like going to a billion appointments and doing a billion tests that are at least 12 hours each.
They make you do puzzles and games and memory tests and thinking tests. What Todesking said covers it pretty well.


Mine only took two visits and about 7 hours.


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09 Jan 2011, 2:14 am

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I really don't want to get my parents involved...I understand that they could be beneficial to the process of being assessed but they would definitely not take me seriously if I brought the subject up with them.


My parents remembered a lot of stuff I did not know since I was really young at the time. Such as when I was a baby who was crying whenever someone picked me up the doctors said it was colic. I also had a hard time learning to walk and ride a bike. My mother's friends were also Amazed at how early I was when I started to talk.


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09 Jan 2011, 4:14 am

Can't really help ya. I didn't even know I was being assessed.



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09 Jan 2011, 6:45 am

Thank you all for the input. I am just really cautious because of previous bad experiences with my parents with issues relating to my mental health, although I understand that a reaction to an assessment for autism would be very different, as after all it is a different thing entirely.

Hypothetically speaking, what would happen if they were approached for insight and they refused to give it? I know this is an extreme, but it is certainly possible, knowing my parents in the way that I do. What would happen then? Would the process just come to a standstill?


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09 Jan 2011, 6:58 am

I was assessed through the New Zealand public system, and I was not required to take an I.Q. test. The assessment was naturally free, but it was somewhat inconclusive, leading me to believe that it was somewhat inconclusive, however, ever since my Friday afternoons have been occupied with talking to a counsellor, so obviously the assessment was more conclusive than I thought.


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09 Jan 2011, 9:36 am

Todesking wrote:
My test was taken in the states this what I remember from the test.

They gave me a mathematics test.
A reading comprehension test.
A test where I used blocks to reproduce an image with the blocks
A test where I had to name all the animals I could think of as quickly as possible
A test to name all the words I can think of that began with the letter H

>>> Hell. (Noun: A figurative expression of being, derived from the after life of theological phisophies as a destination for malevolent souls)


I had to put pins in a hole as quickly a possible using one hand

There was a test where I put shapes in a catergory
I had to find what was wrong with a picture

>>> Well, for starters THIS picture (context world), contains images of children playing in a wonderland wasteland of abusers, landmines, poison, disease, drugs, death, illness, injuries, while their parents are laughing and having a social party with their backs turned to them, inhebriated on classy liqour, while wearing sophisticated clothing).


I was asked what was the most comonly spoken language

>>> Chinese....

I was asked who wrote Alice in wonder land

Lewis Carol,

There were some other triva questions that I forgot about but were common
Several tests for memory
They gave me a list of questions for my parents to fill out and mail in.
A test to test my grip strength

The test took 7 hours I test in the average range due to memory issues in the IQ part and above average in the verbal IQ.

Let them know about your anxiety issues before showing so they will do their best to accomidate you. My psychologist knew right away I had Aspergers from the first conversation he had with me. Do not do anything to hide your Aspergers like you do when your in public I met a guy who was so good at blending in appearing as if he was NT the psychologist was suprised he had Aspergers. Good luck and be truthfull.



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09 Jan 2011, 4:00 pm

maddycakes__ wrote:
Hypothetically speaking, what would happen if they were approached for insight and they refused to give it? I know this is an extreme, but it is certainly possible, knowing my parents in the way that I do. What would happen then? Would the process just come to a standstill?


My mother refused to answer the questions that the psychologist asked, and gave answers to questions that she preferred - she insisted I was "normal" and kept producing examples of "normal" behaviour. The psychologist kind of gave up on getting any non-evasive answers from her, but my father was much more straightforward. Professional assessors deal with these issues all the time and are used to them.

If your parents outright refused to participate, then it would not stop the assessment. I assume they want to measure performance that relates to education and employment, and they will still do that.



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10 Jan 2011, 1:24 am

More often than not what parents percieve to be "proof" of normal behaviour is in fact proof of someone being on the spectrum. Talking really early and knowing certain things is seen as proof of normality, but the way children are using language in these cases is usually proof that something is actually different about them. I recently read a book about a kid who at the age of only two and half was telling the mother directions in the car from his car seat to different places and the like. To the mother this was proof the child was normal, but the kid was unable to play with other children, to say hello to kids, even have an average conversation with an adult. All the kid could do in terms of language was to say what he knew, and his skills lie in maps and knowing how to get places. He may be incredibly high in some regards, but that is not accounting for his incredibly lowless in others.