DISCO assessment

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I've decided to bite the bullet and go for assessment (big decision!). The clinic I'll be going to uses DISCO and ADOS. I can't find very much info about them online - I understand it's to make them "unseen" when going in for assessment but not knowing things makes me quite nervous and the idea of going in and speaking to someone for a long time when I've got no idea what will happen is quite scary for me.

Can anyone share their experiences of DISCO/ADOS assessment and tell me what it was like or what it involved?

I know what disco music is, but not what a DISCO assessment is.

What exactly are you "afraid" of?

That the doctors will physically harm you, or something?

Heya. I had disco. I didn't have ados. My assessment took a few months because the person who diagnosed me came round once a week.

I think for most people though I might be done over 1 or 2 days. The disco takes a lot of information about very early childhood and often ask for parent or guardian for things like feeding habits and stuff. It seems weird but is all related though. Your asked questions about socialising, stimming. There's quite a lot to it because it's very broad and it's a diagnostic tool for all the autistic spectrum and I think maybe other social and communicative disorders. It's used to diagnose very low/very high functioning people and very young children to adults so not every question will be relevant.

I'd say though it's best not to be too prepared. It may skew your results. Go in pretty much blind and just be as you are, that's the purpose, to show how you really are and not how you act because you think you should act a certain way. Good luck tho

The ADOS-2 and DISCO diagnostic tests are quite good. I have read that they are similar. My diagnosis used ADOS-2. It included Q&As, games, mimicking, storytelling with a book and toys, and a written self-reported social responsiveness test. As others have written here, just be yourself. After all, the tests expect to see the real you.