ADOS-2

[vergil96]

If you have taken the test, what is it like?

 

[Angular Chap]

I just did mine this August, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind.

It was conducted via Skype, so 2 of the tasks were skipped, according to my report.

The clinician asked me not to mask and to present my most authentic self. I was told I could take breaks whenever I wanted.

The first task was to tell a story from a book with no words, just pictures. It involved flying frogs.

Next I was shown a picture and asked to describe what I saw.

I was then asked a LOT of questions about myself, everything from about what my perfect holiday would be, to what scares me.

I was then asked to demonstrate how to brush my teeth.

Then it was more questions. This time, everything from hobbies to relationships.

Before the assessment, I was asked to have a few seemingly random objects ready. For the final task, I was asked to tell a story using them, with the clinician giving me an example.

My voice did start to tire towards the end, I'm not used to talking so much.

I've read about other people saying the whole thing felt demeaning, degrading or humiliating, but I think that has more to do with the clinician giving the assessment, rather than the assessment itself. I'm used to feeling embarrassed just going into a shop, but I didn't feel like that during the assessment. I was made to feel dignified. The clinician who handled my assessment was incredibly professional and I actually quite enjoyed doing the tasks, but found answering so many questions to be a little bit draining towards the end.

It lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Just over a week later I received my report that included all manner of things, strengths and weaknesses, and little details about my eye contact and hand gestures.

 

[vergil96]

Thank you for the detailed answer. Tbh sounds like most psychological tests. They are always trying to get you to tell stories, which I might be very bad at. It's like they're always trying to get you to overinterpret, but at the same time, then the "cure" is that they will tell you that's irrational. How does that make any sense? Perhaps in this test they don't?