Different types of test used to diagnose adults for Autism

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So yesterday I had the test done for Autism, the first test was to test my attention and processing speed. It was on the computer i had to press a button every time i saw this black box on top of this little white box that test was 30 minutes. The next to test were the ones with the blocks and the shapes which i found to be some what difficult for me. The next test was a memory test where i had to repeat words and numbers back to the psychologist some were easy but alot of it was hard especially when i had to repeat them backwards. The last test was a 600 question personally test that took me 3 hours to do and the psychologist said most people complete it in a hour and a half. I get the results on 31st of this month. My question is why did she not do the story test. Can anyone that has gone though the testing for adult autism tell me what test did they have you take.

What you described seems more like an ADHD test. Perhaps your diagnostician wanted to "rule out" ADHD to focus on possible autism instead.

She said it was for Autism, and the personality test was to see how many autistic traits i have.
If i dont agree with the diagnosis i will be getting a second opinion.

IQ Test
ADOS-2
Adaptive functioning and execitive functioning assessments
Modified ADI-R

To livingwithautism, where those the test that i took or that you took?

Those were the tests I took, when my diagnostic information was updated. I already had an autism diagnosis beforehand.

Adult Aspergers Assesment
Behavior Rating of Executive Function
Social Responsivenss Scale, Second Edition

I was diagnosed at age 19 (a few months ago actually). They used the ADI-R, which is a semi-structured interview with my mother. They asked her various questions about how I was as a child through to my current age at the time. In order for the diagnosis of ASD I had to get so many points in each of the sections. As soon as they had finished with the interview my mother run to inform me they said I have aspergers, then a couple of weeks later I recieved the official report with my official diagnosis of ASD explaining my scoring.

That sounds completely different from my test; I don't think I had anything like what you had, except for a written test that might loosely be called a personality test, but mine was I think 380 questions.

My test that I did as an adult involved looking at a book about flying frogs and then telling the story, looking at cards and telling a story, making a story with objects, talking to the psychologist, and the psychologist interviewing my parents.

Would be interesting for members to develop a Wrong Planet test for diagnostic criteria.

They didn't give me any puzzles to solve at all. I just did the AQ questionnaire as a pre-screening, and the rest of it was all question-and-answer things, both written and verbal, with some input from my (then) wife, since my parents were dead by then and there wasn't anybody else handy who knew me particularly well - again, all question-and-answer. It's quite possible the clinical psychologist who conducted the proceedings was looking out for oddities in my communication style - there was something in the final diagnostic report describing my style of eye contact and smiling, suggesting there was something atypical about those, and a remark about my being a lot stronger at written communication than verbal, though it didn't say my verbal communication skills were below average. The diagnostic criteria used were the ICD-10 ones. I'd have liked a few puzzles, but that approach presupposes I would have done my best to solve them......I would have done, but the clinical psychologist couldn't have known that, so from their point of view maybe it would have been of limited value.