#if u just want to go give yourself a pseudo quiz

[pebblethief]

ok slightly longer ramble abt the autism assessment

going under a cut bc itll probably get wordy but i want you all to know that the guy looked like a discount oscar isaac. which is to say still distractingly hot lol

ok so overall it really wasnt too bad! i still hate talking about myself but its SO much easier to just...dump about your personality than your trauma like u gotta do w therapists

sure i dont like talking about my insufficiencies but telling someone a billion dumb stories about how as a kid i prefered my friends parents company or that yes i did very much notice that he put the hand gel down differently and yes it would be nice for it to go back please lol

he used the “Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO)” thing for this, if u are curious (and i think some of you are thinking about it so maybe u wanna know specifics)

i dont think it was worded the same as this one (this is a pdf link, jic youre on your phone), he had less stuff about school/my childhood and more about how i am now. but same general format and types of questions

he was very nice when i was explaining that i will overexplain if im not sure the other person 100% gets it and then proceeded to do EXACTLY that to explain it lmfao. he laughed and was like yeah that sounds about right

he also managed to pull out some symptoms that i hadnt even thought about like “if a friend was upset would you put your arm around them to comfort them” and that straight up never would have occurred to me to do. thats not what i was thinking of whenever i came across that question

just overall he was very nice and never made me feel weird and knew how to ask questions so i wouldnt just clam up. a much better experience than any other type of brain assessment ive ever had!

he also emailed me to confirm im on the waiting list. which is unfortunately 12-18 months RIP. he said theyre trying to hire more people but theyve got massive covid backlog so. at least he gave me the “ok im officially not allowed to say but” thing so i can feel like less of a faker