One thing I've noticed re autism assessments

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I was given a preliminary interview first, then an IQ test, then a brief version of the Thematic Aperception Test, then the MMPI, then a couple of tests of my ability to recognize facial expressions (in photographs) and tone of voice (in recordings), then the ADOS, and then the Vineland.

I was also given several take-home multiple-choice questionnaires. Additionally, before even the preliminary interview, I was asked to fill out a "Life History Questionnaire" with lots of checkboxes and fill-in-the-blanks questions about my childhood and social development.

LOL...I sort of thought of him as being a Frankenstein type.....

The thought of being tested is scary. I mean... My IQ maybe perceeved as being low because it is years since I have been in school and anything I research into tends to be soo narrow minded, so the chances of my IQ coming up like it did when I was in school would be remote. Mind you. In primary school my intelligence was said to be good. However I was average in secondary. Primary school I did well i towards the last two years. The first two years I hardly spoke a word and was considered a dunce! I was with the remedials. It was at the age of six onwards that a certain teacher spotted me and brought me on as she realized it was shyness... And I went from being classed as thick to being classed as above average intelligence in just a few months. The teacher before that didn't teach me. She put me in a room by myself every day as my mum said something that upset her... I was very shy.. My mum went over the homework which was reading several times. I knew it off by heart. But when the teacher (Who I didn't take to as a child...) sat me down and I was too shy to read... The teacher said I had not done my homework. My mum sent a note back saying I had... And the teacher took offence and stopped teaching me. I actually didn't mind being alone, but one day there was an accident which scared the teacher. There was a glass jar with pencils in it in the middle of the table. I tipped the glass jar and it started to roll towards me. I had my hands at the edge of the table ready to catch it. Then the teacher came in and shouted "Watch out" and I jumped in fright and the jar came crashing o to the floor. The teacher then put me in with the rest of the class as she must have realized that leaving me on my own was risky. I had to stand in the corner... Mind you, if another teacher came in she included me until the other teacher went.

Many years later my mum was doing door to door interviewing. She knocked on a door and it was the teacher who answered. The teacher was by then an elderly lady. She asked my mums forgiveness and said what she had done. She wasn't thinking straight and during that year had gone down with a dissability... I think some sort of disease or condition? I forgive her... It dis puzzle me how she was able to keep me alone for so long without the other teachers or the headmaster noticing. I was 5 at the time.

My assessment involved a preliminary interview on one day. Another interview, ADOS module 4, a questionnaire screening for other psychological disorders on another day. And the WAIS IQ test on a third day. My assessor also interviewed my parents and my sister as well as reviewing some videos from my childhood.