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I think I was given the same book for that task. Did it have some story through the middle of the night, with the time in the morning printed on the opposite page of each picture? (frogs flew on Lilly-pads and stole ... something) If so, did you notice how specific some of the times were?

He started his story out mentioning what time it was as a part of his story before describing each page. So I just naturally kind of copied that when i had to tell the story, but as the story moves on each page only takes a couple of minuets, so i got stuck repeating small variations of the phrase "and then a little later at 4:53am ..." before each page, because i had to mention the time. About half way threw the book i had to stop, laugh at my terrible story, and continue never mentioning the time again.

i asked later if it was a trap, the answer was vague



That's funny I think I did that test, but i was never asked to stand up.

Yes! That was the book! Except I did not see any other times. I could have sworn the writing was only on the first and almost the last page. Was it conspicuous in your book or was it hidden? I had one page near the end where one page was white, and the other had a man eating. The time given on the white page was 11:21pm, and I said he was up for an almost-midnight-snack. The first page had time on it, but she did that page after I sat there for a few minutes not knowing what to do (ie. she started the story for me). I did not notice any writing on any of the other pages, and I thought I looked thoroughly, but maybe not.

This is an old thread but interesting to me as I just took the ADOS and am now anxiously awaiting results.

I also had to use the picture book "Tuesday" and did what everyone on here did. I described what I saw in front of me with a lot of details and asking a lot of questions aloud that I was wondering as I tried to figure it all out. There were no characters, plot, emotions, etc.

For the story with objects, I choose the feather, a metal disc that looked like the wheel from a pizza cutter, a mini basketball, the candlestick from Clue, and a card (4 of spades). I lined the objects up, didn't realize I did that until after. The story the psychologist made started with "so and so wanted to go to the beach..." so I started the same and used that approach throughout. My story: "Bird (the feather) wanted a pizza but could only find a pizza cutting wheel, so decided to play basketball but then the ball was gone (I tossed it aside), so he decided to play clue and be the candlestick but didn't have anyone to play with, so he decided to play cards but was 51 cards short. the end."

This story obviously is repetitive and uses everything literally, has no emotion and no characters aside from the literal bird. But I also incorporated what the bird wanted as part of the story (even though I copied her lead), so I wonder if they'll interpret that as me being able to see a perspective other than my own? I'm not really sure.

I suspect the props used are pretty much the same for everyone. There was an eraser, shoe lace, hair tie, block and paperclip, and my assessor used those for a story about Bob going to Blackpool on the train. All I could think while she was doing this was "Bob is taller than the train, so this journey will never happen."

Left over were a toy car, a playing card, a feather, and another couple of objects I can't remember. Anyway, I couldn't make up the story, and when she mentioned she was going on holiday, I just said "oh." Ooops???

What was your result?