Question: What are your feeling on the assessment?

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Question: What are your feeling on the assessment?

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I had a two stage autism assessment, the first was a video interview that lasted an hour. This was all focused on learning about me, and a young Daz. How I remember school, my teenage years, early working life and more. It really was designed to extract behaviours cause and affects, then determine if they should continue to the observation round.
At the end I was given an opportunity to ask my questions, my mind was blank, even though I'd thought of hundreds of question. But I did ask if I was on the right path?

The answer had me in tears, truly in tears.
"Yes, I can't say that you ARE autistic, but I can certainly say there's more to me than the usual mental health issues". The lady doing the interview also nodded quite emphatically.
That was the boost I needed.

Next up was the observations. Most of it is designed to assess your flavour of autism I suspect, but it was the imagination tests that completely levelled me, and I mean levelled. I almost walked out at the end and into the nearest bar. I was that wrecked. I ended up hitting myself in the head and rocking constantly, I really really couldn't do it, and I always thought I had a healthy imagination. I was VERY wrong.

And that's my question, how did you feel after the assessment?
Autism is a neuro-developmental condition characterised
by difficulties in social interaction and communication,
as well as restricted and repetitive behaviours or interests.
Life on the Spectrum
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