Just took ADOS - I have some questions

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If you haven't taken the test and don't want to spoil it for yourself, don't keep reading!!




I didn't want to research what it was beforehand so I went in not knowing anything. Now that I have taken it I have been looking through some peoples posts about it and it seems like the one I took had less parts than other peoples. I'm wondering why this might be or if the test giver could have given me an incomplete test?

She asked me a bunch a questions about feelings, friends, what I don't like about people, what I think I do that's annoying, and bunch of stuff like that.
I had to choose between two books that have no words and explain what's happening. The one I picked turned out to be a strange thing about frogs and different times of day.
I had to look at a cartoonish picture of the USA and tell her about it.
I had to mime washing my face and brushing my teeth.

I think that was all. I took a questionnaire home for my friends mom (who knows me super well and has spent a lot of time around me in various social settings) to fill out because I was unable to answer the questions. She said normally a child's teacher or parent would answer it. She also is going to phone call my mom and my fore mentioned friends mom.

I have noticed other people talking about similar things but also about making up a story using objects pulled from a bag, building something with blocks or shapes, and other stuff. Should I have done more than what I did? Or are there different versions of this? Or?

Could I ask what ADOS is?

Autism diagnostic observation schedule. It's a series of tasks that are used to evaluate performance and determine if one is autistic.

ADOS (Second Edition, Module 4) evaluates 20 items in five domains. 11 of those items (in two domains) are part of the diagnostic algorythm:

Communication domain: Stereotyped/Idiosyncratic Use of Words or Phrases, Conversation, Descriptive, Conventional, Instrumental, or Informational Gestures, and Emphatic or Emotional Gestures

Social Interaction Domain: Unusual Eye Contact, Facial Expressions Directed to Examiner, Comments on Others' Emotions/Empathy, Responsibility, Quality of Social Overtures, Quality of Social Response, and Amount of Reciprocal Social Communication

Each item is scored 0, 1, 2, or 3.

There are three diagnostic categories: Autism, Autism Spectrum, and Non-Spectrum.

You are considered not in the spectrum if: Communication total ≤1, Social interaction total ≤ 3, or Communication + Social interaction ≤ 6